Ah, what the heck!

I figured that if it turned out to be worth about forty-leven hundred thousand dollars, you might, in your delight at the windfall, feel moved to share the proceeds with someone who suggested you check it out rather than just get rid of it. Oh, well. Worth a shot, I guess.....

(But I did find out a lot about the artist and the Machiavellian nature of some of the folks involved in the French Revolution.)

Don (never let a chance go by) Firth