Volume 26, Number 21 & 22 · January 24, 1980
He Was French
By Robert Hughes
In response to Only in America
(December 20, 1979)
To the Editors:
A slip of memory, prompted by his Teutonic surname, made me assign German citizenship to the nineteenth-century art historian Eugene Muntz in my piece on Berenson [NYR, December 20]. He was in fact French. Moreover, your printer shifted a dash in a sentence about a genuine German art historian, which should have read "whose chief—and Berenson's lifelong enemy—was Wilhelm Bode…."
Robert Hughes
New York City