REPORTS
OF THE DEPARTMENTS
FitzAmericanPaintingsand SculptureAmerican, Mrs. Wade Hampton (AnneGriffith
simmons); John Paradise, American, Julie
(Julie Francois Gabriel d'Anterroches), both oil on
canvas, xix century.
Mrs. Nathaniel Dirk: Nathaniel Dirk, American,
Break, Break at the Foot of thy Crags, water
color, I950.
Mrs. Hugh Ferriss: Hugh Ferriss, American, 2
drawings of the Metropolitan Museum, pencil on
paper, about I953.
Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch:
Attributed to Pieter Vanderlyn, American, Young
Lady with a Rose, oil on canvas, 1732; John Durand, American, Mary Botican Lathrop, oil on canvas, about I770; Frederick Kemmelmeyer, American, The American Star, oil on brown craft paper,
about I795; Edward Hicks, American, The Falls
of Niagara, oil on canvas, 1825; attributed to
Ammi Phillips, American, Mrs. Mayer and Daughter, oil on canvas, about 1835; T. Chambers,
American, The Constitution vs. The Guerriere,
oil on canvas, about 1845; James I. Evans, American, The Towboat Conqueror, oil on canvas, 1852.
Lillian Gish: Isamu Noguchi, American, Head
of Lillian Gish, marble, about I937.
David Hare: David Hare, American, The Swan's
Dream of Leda, bronze, I962.
Charles Z. Mann: Stefano Cusumano, American, Seated Figure, brown oil wash on paper, xx
century.
Mrs. Robert . Meyers: Mario Cooper, American,
Houseboat, Tokyo Canal, water color, about I959.
Georgia O'Keeffe: Georgia O'Keeffe, American,
Clam Shell, oil on canvas, 1930; (remainingthirteen
per cent interest): Ranchos Church, oil on canvas,
I930.
Richard and Peter Seffert: Leopold Seyffert,
American, Self-Portrait - In the Studio, oil on
canvas, 1933.
Society of Medalists: Oronzio Maldarelli, American, bronze medal in duplicate, I962; Carl C.
Mose, American, bronze medal in duplicate, 1962.
Mary Fuller Wilson (bequest): Asher Durand,
American, Luman Reed, oil on canvas, xix cen-
Among the most important additions to the
collections were a head of Lillian Gish, by
Isamu Noguchi, given by Miss Gish, and two
oils by Georgia O'Keeffe, Clam Shell and
Ranchos Church, presented by the artist. We
were also given seven early American paintings by Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler
Garbisch, including The Falls of Niagara, by
Edward Hicks, and a portrait of Mary Botican Lathrop, by John Durand. Through the
bequest of Mary Fuller Wilson we received a
portrait of Luman Reed, by Asher B. Durand.
The purchase of First Defense of the America's Cup, by Samuel Coleman, enabled us to
add a first-rate early American seascape to
our collections. The Museum acquired by
purchase William Harnett's famous trompe
l'oeil still life Music and Good Luck, one of
his finest pictures, and a large tondo by Joseph
Stella-Coney Island, painted in I9I5.
A catalogue of American sculpture has been
compiled by Albert TenEyck Gardner, and
is ready to go to press. Mr. Gardner and
Stuart P. Feld are completing two fully illustrated catalogues of American painting, covering the works of artists born before I87I.
This project will describe in detail some six
hundred paintings and contain biographiesof
250 American painters. Henry Geldzahler is
preparing an exhibition catalogue of twentieth century American art. It is hoped that
these works will appear to accompany a comprehensive American exhibition planned for
some time during the forthcoming World's tury.
Fair in New York.
Georgia O'Keefe (b. i877),
American. Clam Shell, 1930. Oil
on canvas. 24 x 36 inches. Gift of
Georgia O'Keefe, 62.258
PURCHASES
GIFTS
RECEIVED
Drawing: Leon Dabo, American, drawing, pen-
Kated'A. Bonner(bequest):JohnWesleyJarvis, cil on paper, xx century.
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Paintings: Samuel Coleman, American,First
Defenseof the America'sCup, oil on canvas,I870
(ArthurH. Hearn Fund); William M. Harnett,
American,Music and Good Luck, oil on canvas,
1888 (C. L. Wolfe Fund); Arthur B. Carles,
American,L'Eglise, oil on canvas, about I9Io
(Arthur H. Hearn Fund); JosephStella, American, Coney Island, oil on canvas, I9I5; Burgoyne
William M. Harnett (1848-1892),
American.Music and Good Luck,
I888. Oil on canvas. 40 x 30
inches. C. L. Wolfe Fund, 63.85
themselves to the periodic display of loan
exhibitions of American decorative arts and
pictures, which vary the fare for our more
constant visitors and attract newcomers by
their novelty.
Two years ago an exhibition entitled Col-
lecting Americana: I956-I96I was organized
Diller, American,Second Theme, oil on canvas, to show the
variety and quality of objects
1938; EllsworthKelly,American,Blue Red Green,
oil on canvas, 1963 (all GeorgeA. Hearn Fund). acquired by the Museum through gifts and
purchases.In 1962 The Anatomy of a Chair ilLOANS
ACCEPTED
lustrated the regional characteristicsof Queen
Renee CarhartAmory: Paul Hertzel, American,
Anne, Chippendale, Hepplewhite, and Sherastatuette of a Cowboy on a Pony, bronze, xix
ton chairs made in this country's eighteenth
century; CharlesM. Russel,American,Shootin'
cabinetmaking centers. American Art
century
Thomas
Le
xix
the
Town, bronze,
century;
up
Clear,American,Portraitof Amory Sibley Car- from American Collections opened in six galhart, oil on canvas,xix century; Ellen Emmet, leries of the Wing in March of this year; more
American,Boy (Amory Sibley Carhart),oil on than 250 pieces of furniture, silver, glass, porcanvas, I903; Ellen or Lydia Emmet, American,
water colors, and paintings were
Seated Lady (MarionBrookmanCarhart)and a celain, prints,
Little Girl (Marion Renee CarhartAmory), oil borrowed from sixty-four private collections
on canvas,xx century.
throughout the country. The exhibition, sponMrs. Darwin Morse: Unknown artist, Ameri- sored by The Friends of the American Wing,
can, Lion, pen andink, xix century;J. W. Audu- was not intended to be a definitive study of
bon, American,Hudson Bay Lemming, oil on American arts: the
objects, dating from the
canvas,xix century;A. F. Tait, Deer, oil on canto
the middle nineteenth
vas, xix century; A. S. Calder,Nude, wash on early eighteenth
chosen
on the basis of their
were
paper,xx century;KennethCallahan,Landscape, centuries,
LaGaston
xx
and
both
charm.
and
ink,
Birds,
century;
pen
They demonstrated
beauty, rarity,
chaise,American,Nude, bronze,xx century.
the diversity and extraordinary quality of
Princeton University through the Trustees of the
Americana that remains in private hands deEstate of Josephine A. Thompson Swann: John
the continuing flow of objects of art
SingletonCopley, American,Portraitof Elkanah spite
into
public institutions. The exhibition was
Watson,oil on canvas,1782.
Mrs. Nate B. Spingold: Hyman Bloom, Ameri- accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue
can, Jewwith Torahand Childin a Garden,both intended to document the objects for future
oil on canvas,xx century;EdwardHopper,Amerstudents.
ican,Hotel Room,oil on canvas,xx century;Jack
During the year, the Wing has acquired
Levine, American,Hillel and CourtroomStudy,
some
both oil on canvas,xx century;Ben Shahn,Ameroutstanding objects of art. Through the
ican, Portraitof AndreMalraux,oil on canvas,xx gift of Charles A. Poindexter, five New York
century; Max Weber, American,Talmudic Stu- Chippendale chairs, originally belonging to
dent, oil on canvas,xx century.
the Verplanck family, have rejoined their two
Estate of Mrs. 0. Z. WhiteheadthroughA. P. and
0. Z. Whitehead:
Ellen Emmet Rand, American, mates, which have graced the VerplanckRoom
for many years. A Chinese export porcelain
Mr. O. Z. Whitehead, oil on canvas, about I905.
punch bowl, the gift of David Wagstaff, Jr.,
ROBERTBEVERLYHALE, Curator
recreates, in its painted decoration, the hongs,
or factories, of Canton from whence the goods
of China were shipped to the Western market
more than a century and a half ago. Among
AmericanWing
our most interesting purchases is a finely
It is hoped that special exhibitions will con- carved Queen Anne slipper chair, said to have
tinue to play an important part in the activi- been made for the Taft family of Brooklyn,
ties and the confines of the American Wing. which adds a unique touch to our collection
The scale and atmosphere of the galleries lend of New York furniture.
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GIFTS
RECEIVED
Mrs. Emanuel Altman: Coverlet, quilted cotton
with appliques,I849, American(probablyLancaster,Ohio).
MargaretBancroft:Embroideredchairseat and
cotton, printed in William Morris design, late
xix century, English or American.
David Wagstaff, Jr.: Punch bowl, Chinese export porcelain, about i8oo.
back, wool and beads on canvas, about I850-I86I,
PURCHASES
by JosephineGiven Grozier,American(Bowdoinham, Maine).
Ceramics: 25 piece tea set, porcelain, I830-I834,
by Tucker & Hulme, American (Philadelphia)
(Rogers Fund).
Drawing: Chart of New York, ink on paper,
1794, by P. V. Steenbergh, American (Rogers
Fund).
Furniture: Slipper chair, maple, about I720I740, American (New England) (Rogers Fund);
slipper chair, mahogany, about 1745, Queen Anne
style, American (New York) (Dick Fund); shelf
clock, mahogany, about I820-1835, with label of
Seth Thomas, American (Plymouth, Connecticut)
(Rogers Fund).
Metalwork: Tea caddy, silver, about 1725, by
Peter Van Dyke, American (New York) (Sansbury-Mills Fund); 6 curtain tiebacks, one pair
bronze, two pairs gilded metal, xix century, probably American (Rogers Fund).
Textile: Brussels-type carpet, wool, about i850i860, English (Rogers Fund).
Albert TenEyckGardner:Lady's Hand and Flow-
ers, marblesculpture,xix century, possibly by
HiramPowers,American.
Ginsburg& Levy,Inc.: Cloakpin with portrait
of Gouverneur Morris, transfer print on enamel,
late xvIII century,English.
Olive Mason Gunnison: Embroidered picture,
Moses in the Bulrushes, wool, mid-xix century,
by Mary Ann Parks Hammond, American.
Russell Hunter: Siphon, silver, about I820, by
Marquand & Co., American (New York).
Ursula W. Levermore: Embroidered picture,
Hersilia, silk, 1813, by Sarah L. Skelding, Ameri-
can (Bethlehem,Pennsylvania).
Ralphina Lowenstein: Bedspread and 2 pillow
shams, crochetedlinen, mid-xix century, probably American.
Cecile L. Mayer (bequest subject to two intervening life estates): 21 pieces of furniture, 2 printed
Side chair. American(New York),
Chippendale style, I760-1765.
Mahogany. Height38% inches. Gift
chintz panels,xvIII and xix centuries,American.
LOANS
Mrs. H. S. Mesick: Art nouveau lamp, glass,
marked Handel, about 900o, American (New
York); 20 piece desk set, patinated bronze and
glass, about 910o, by Tiffany Studios, American
(New York).
Mr. and Mrs. LawrenceMorris: Vase, blue iridescent glass, 900oo-910, by Tiffany Studios, American (New York).
Roger Morton and Paul C. Morton: Patchwork
quilt, taffeta, about 1837-I85o, American (Russellville, Kentucky).
Mrs. Henry L. Moses: Watch, gold case, works
about 18io-I829, by M. I. Tobias & Co., English
(Liverpool), case, about i850, American (probably New York).
New York Clearing House: i6 gaslight fixtures
with branch arms and globes, gilded brass and
bronze, about I895, American.
Reverendand Mrs. Karl Nielsen: Patchwork quilt
with embroidery, silk, second half of the xix century, by Aletta Whitehouse Davis, American.
Mrs. CecilJ. North: Lithophane panel with wood
stand, hard-paste porcelain, about 1840, German
(Berlin).
CharlesA. Poindexter: 5 side chairs, mahogany
and red oak, I760- 765, Chippendale style, American (New York).
Mrs. Janos Scholz (Helen Marshall Scholz) from
the collection of her late husband, Ernest Schelling:
Bellpull, woven silk and wool, mid-xix century,
probably French.
Mrs. Joseph M. Shapiro: 4 curtains and 2 ties,
(exclusive of Special Exhibitions)
Mrs. FrederickStreet Hoppin: 2 urns, Chinese
ACCEPTED
of Charles A. Poindexter, 62.250.I
exportporcelain,about i8oo.
Mrs. Darwin Morse: Pitcher with cover, pewter, second half of the xvIII century, by Frederick
Bassett, American (New York); 23 pieces of glass,
late xix century, English (made for the American
market) and American.
JAMES BIDDLE, Curator
Arms and Armor
For the first time in many years there are no
acquisitions to report, since no superlative
examplesof the art of the armorerwere known
to be available for purchase. The departmental library was enriched by the gift of Helen
S. Stone and Bromley S. Stone of the specialized library of their uncle, the late George
C. Stone, whose bequest of a remarkablecollection of Oriental arms and armor was received by the Museum in I936.
A small representative collection of European and Oriental arms and armor was sent
to the Roberson Memorial Center in Binghamton, New York for a long-term exhibition
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Slipperchair. American(New
York), Queen Anne style, about
1745. Mahogany. Height 33 inches.
Dick Fund, 63.41 a, b
sponsored by the New York State Council on
the Arts.
Helmut Nickel, Assistant Curator, represented the Museum at the Third International
Congress of Museums of Arms and Military
History held in London in April.
Extensive research work dealing with Museum objects has been accomplished during
the year. Considerable time has been devoted
to the preparation of a catalogue of the collection of European armor, which is planned
to be completed in two years. A comparative
study is being made of the work of the armorers, etchers, gunmakers, bladesmiths, etc.,
who are represented in the Museum's collections. Work is proceeding with the measurements of suits and elements of armor, which
will provide useful information on the physical stature of military leaders of the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries. A comparative study
of the construction and characteristicsof the
Museum's comprehensive collection of European and Oriental mail is also in progress.
Steps have been taken to replace some of
the disintegrating decorative silk flags in the
Equestrian Court with rayon flags bearing
the heraldic arms associated with some of our
most important historical armor. Plans have
been made for the Department Study Room,
which will be activated when the study collection is moved to quarters near the armor
galleries.
lecture series this year. The Musica Aeterna
series,conducted by Frederic Waldman, which
began in I957 with three concerts, has proved
so popular that five concerts were given, each
on a Saturday and Sunday night, and there
were many standees even for the repeat performances. This coming year we shall offer
nine programs on Saturday evenings, to be
repeated on Sundays. There were more vocal concerts than in previous years; the high
point of these was the joint performance by
Maureen Forrester and Gerard Souzay of
Hugo Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch, which
was called by The New York Times "one of
the major musical events of the season."
It is always difficult to make the same music
interesting to all the children-of greatly
varying ages-who come to our Children's
Concerts, but Boris Goldovsky made opera
so exciting that two of his programs were repeated during the Christmas vacation. During
the coming year he will give a similarprogram
on the lives and works of great composers.
For the first time in our lecture program,
two staff members shared the stage during a
seriesof five lectures. Margaretta Salinger, Associate Research Curator of European Paintings, discussed the paintings of five artists,
while Robert Beverly Hale, Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, demonstrated,
by making charcoal drawings, how the artists
approachedand solved certain technical problems.
LOANS ACCEPTED
In response to answers to a questionnaire,
Renee CarhartAmory: Helmet (morion) of
the
lecture course Art for the Traveler was
etched steel, about I575, Italian;combinationax
offered
at 6 P.M.instead of the usual time of
and flintlockpistol,steel with stock of woodinlaid
xvIIcentury,Ger- 8:30, thus permitting people to come directly
with boneand mother-of-pearl,
steel, xvII century, to the Museum from work. Claude Marks's
man;dagger(sword-breaker),
German;dagger (katar), chiseledsteel, xix cenmorning course, The Glories of the Medici,
tury, East Indian.
AlastairB. Martin:Miqueletpistol,dagger,and and Boris Goldovsky's evening course, The
swordwith accessories,metal partsof blued steel Opera, were so popular that priority numbers
inlaid with arabesquesin gold, all in box of Cir- were distributed for seats not used by subcassianwalnutinlaidwith silverwire,xix century, scribers.
Caucasian.
As usual, the Museum held several concerts
STEPHEN V. GRANCSAY, Curator
by foremost artists. It is always easy to draw
large audiences for great names; what gives
us
especial pleasure is that these same audiEvents
Auditorium
ences will come to hear unusual programs
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium was well performed.
WILLIAM KOLODNEY, Consultant
again filled to capacity for the concert and
6o
The CostumeInstitute
cluded in a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Maxime
L. Hermanos.
In addition, there are some nineteenth cenIn every compilation of facts and figures, tury costumes presented by Mrs. Frederick
there is not only the tangible, concrete evi- Street Hoppin. They are of historical interest,
dence of things accomplished, but the intan- having belonged to the family of William
gible achievements that cannot be translated Warner Hoppin, a former governor of Rhode
into numbers. For example, in addition to Island. A group of French dressesof about the
fashion designers, students of merchandising same period, from the House of Depret, were
and design, and others who use the Costume presented by Elizabeth R. Hooker. They were
Institute regularly,there has been an increased purchased in Paris in i867 for the trousseau
use of the collections by designers for the of the donor's mother, the former Grace
theater and motion pictures, and by univer- Russell of New Britain, Connecticut. Among
sity students majoring in theatrical costume these is a bride's summer afternoon dress of
design. A day at the Costume Institute may white pifia cloth, satin-striped in violet, with
find Katharine Hepburn, accompanied by her a matching violet sash, and an elaborate gown
designer, poring over books and costumes for of pale blue satin striped in undulating floral
ideas for the motion picture Long Day's Jour- brocaded bands, worn by the donor's grandney into Night; or Donald Brooks, with a dead- mother, possibly as the mother of the bride.
line to meet, feverishly finishing sketches to Three dresses that have a close Museum assobe sent to Vienna for The Cardinal;again, one ciation were presented by Mrs. W. Ogden
may find Mary Martin, who is to play the Ross, whose great-grandfatherwas Heber R.
lead in Jennie, discussing costumes with Irene Bishop, Sr., a Trustee and a Benefactor. The
Sharaff,the noted theatrical costume designer. dresseswere worn by his daughter, Mrs. James
Besides those living in New York and its F. D. Lanier. The most outstanding of these,
environs, researchers have come from areas from the House of Jeanne Hallee of Paris, is a
extending from New England to California, ballgown of I897, made of lustrous peach
Canada to Florida, and, reaching across the satin, embroidered in delicate floral bouquets
ocean, from Finland, Denmark, and England. and swags in point de chainette.Five daytime
Among the numerous gifts of the past year bustle dresses, the gift of Mrs. J. Randall
are many examples of the rich artistry of Creel, are rich and handsome examples of
Eastern craftsmanship,ranging from the Per- late nineteenth century French and American
sian Gulf to the China Sea. Especially im- fashions. They were worn by the donor's
portant is a late eighteenth century man's grandmother, Mrs. David Lyon Gardiner, of
choga, or coat, from Rajputana, North India, New York and Gardiner's Island.
the gift of Mrs. Frederic James Dennis, said
Additions to the contemporary collection
to have belonged to the Maharajahof Kapur- include a child's pink velvet coat and matchthala. It is of tobacco brown wool twill, with ing hat, French, i930, gift of Mrs. Sheldon
minutely embroidered bordersand decorative Whitehouse; a collection of gowns worn by
medallions with hunting and garden scenes Mrs. James Russell Lowell at the Coronation
reminiscent of those found in miniature paint- Ball of Queen Elizabeth II and at the Inauings. Other Oriental costumes include an In- gural Balls of President Dwight D. Eisendian woman's dress (kudti) of deep blue satin hower and President John F. Kennedy. A
heavily embroideredin multicolored silkswith wedding dress of elegant simplicity, with vomirror insets, and a Bokharan man's robe, or luminous train, designed by Norman Norell,
chalat, of ikat-striped silk. Both are part of a was presented by Mr. and Mrs. Peter L.
collection of twelve costumes given by Mr. Briger, the bride and groom. Other contemand Mrs. Clarence S. Stein. A group of charm- porary costumes given by various donors, ining and finely detailed embroideries of the cluding Mrs. Charles B. Wrightsman, Mrs.
eighteenth to twentieth centuries are in- Samuel I. Newhouse, Mrs. Albert Spalding,
6i
Young girl's robe and matching
petticoat of self-patternedlight blue
ribbedsilk, brocadedinfloral
andfoliate motifs. French,Louis
XV period, about I750. Purchase,
IreneLewisohn Bequest, CI
62.28 a, b
Jacques de GheynII (I565-1629),
Dutch. WitchesAround a Caldron.
Pen and brown ink. 94
x I4 6
and Mrs. Samuel Dushkin, are designs from
Count Sarmi for Elizabeth Arden, Sophie of
Saks Fifth Avenue, Balenciaga, Dior, Balmain, Callot Soeurs, Jeanne Lanvin, Lucille,
and Fortuny. A complete list of donors of the
numerous costume and library gifts appears
on p. 86.
Among the twenty-four costume accessions
purchasedwith funds from the Irene Lewisohn
Bequest are some splendid examples from the
eighteenth century. One is a man's suit of the
French Regency period, of delft blue uncut
voided velvet. Another is a charming and elegant young girl's costume, Louis XV, about
1750, in mint condition. The gown has a
matching petticoat, both richly brocaded in
silver and gold metallic and polychrome silks.
The Party of the Year, the Costume Institute's annual benefit sponsored by the Costume Institute Advisory Council, the fashion
industry, and other friends of the Museum,
was again a most gratifying success, netting
the sum of $72,737 toward the goal of achieving the new Costume Institute. Our thanks
and appreciation go to all the committees for
the unstinting contribution of their talents,
to JamesS. Schoff, General Chairman, and to
Melvin E. Dawley and Adam L. Gimbel, CoChairmen, for their dedicated leadership.
We are looking forward to the entire reconstruction of the Costume Institute, designed
in cooperation with the architect Edward D.
Stone. A careful analysis of the collections is
being made, and the patterns of past requests,
activities, and services are being studied to
help plan new exhibitions, lectures, publications, and an expanded student program.
POLAIREWEISSMAN, Executive Director
inches.Purchase,Joseph Pulitzer
Bequest, 62.I96
Drawings
The acquisitions of the past year have made
quite exceptional contributions to the range
and quality of the Museum's collection of
drawings. Our already impressive group of
Italian drawings has been notably enriched
by the purchase of a number of sheets of the
first importance. A celebrated double-faced
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sheet of studies by Parmigianino for the decoration of the church of the Madonna della
Steccata in Parma, a monumental red chalk
figure drawing by Sebastiano del Piombo, two
brilliant large brush drawings by Giovanni
Benedetto Castiglione, and three drawings by
Annibale Carracci,all connected with important Roman commissions, require particular
mention. The acquisition of a dashing and
imaginative pen drawing of three witches
around a caldron by Jacques de Gheyn II is
a fine addition to our Netherlandish drawings.
Our boxes of French drawings were notably
enriched by a large black chalk study by
JacquesLouis David for the Leonidas at Thermopylae in the Louvre, and our unique group
of cubist drawings enlarged by the purchase
of a powerful early portrait study of the actor
Felix Barre by Jacques Villon.
These drawings and a wide selection of
other recent acquisitions-fifty-six in all-were
exhibited in the first room of the Special
Exhibition Galleries from March 13 through
June 3, I963. Several of the sheets exhibited
had drawings on both sides, and these were
presented in double-faced frames to permit
examination of both recto and verso.
In all, the Department has acquired eightyseven drawings in the past year: eleven by
gift and bequest, seventy-six by purchase.
These acquisitions cover all the major schools
of European draughtsmanship.Friends of the
Museum have again been generous, and particular notice should be taken of Emanie
Philips's gift of a Van Gogh water-color study
of a zouave and of Mrs. William H. Osborn's
gift of the remaining two-thirds interest in a
fine Direr drawing.
Drawings from the Museum's collections
figured in two major exhibitions abroad this
year. Three important drawings by Delacroix
were lent to the Delacroix centenary exhibition at the Louvre in Paris, and our Carpaccio
drawing of a young cavalier went to the
Carpaccioexhibition held in the Ducal Palace
in Venice.
Work has begun on a volume that will comment on and illustrate some one hundred of
the major European drawings in the Metropolitan. This will replace the now unavailable
volumes of reproductions of drawings; its appearanceis scheduled to celebrate the opening
of the new drawingsexhibition galleriesin the
Thomas J. Watson Library wing.
GIFTS
RECEIVED
mal Heads, pen; Francesco Primaticcio, Battle of
Trojan War, red chalk; Rosso Fiorentino, Study of
St. Anne, black chalk (all Rogers Fund); Sebastiano del Piombo, Female Figure, red chalk; Francesco Vanni, Studies, pen (both Pfeiffer Fund);
Federico Zuccaro, Vision of St. Eustace, water
color and gouache (Rogers Fund).
MillieBruhlFredrick
(bequest):Unknownartist, xvII century
French,Two Gentlemenin Park, gouache,xvIII
Dutch: Bartholomeus Breenbergh, View of Tivcentury;unknownartist,French,ParkLandscape,
oli,
xix
pen and wash (Rogers Fund); Jacques de
unknown
artist,
Italian,
gouache,
century;
Gheyn II, Witches around Caldron, pen and
Judgmentof Paris,gouache,xix century.
HarryG. Friedman:Attributedto WilliamHo- brown ink (Joseph Pulitzer Bequest).
French: Jacques Stella, Men Moving Stone,
garth,English,Studiesof Heads,red chalk,xvIII
century; Jean Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine,
French, Street Scene, pen and wash, xvIII century.
Paul Giudicelli: Paul Giudicelli, South American, Abstraction, ink and wash, xx century.
Mrs. William H. Osborn (remaining two-thirds
interest,subjectto a life estatein the donor): Albrecht
Diirer, German, Music-making Angels, pen, xvi
century.
Emanie Philips (subject to a life estate in the donor): Vincent van Gogh, Dutch, Zouave, pen,
brown ink, blue crayon, and water color, xix century.
James Byam Shaw: Ciro Ferri, Italian, Head of
Old Man, black and white chalk, xvII century.
Stephen Spector: Jan Erasmus Quellinus, Flemish, St. Francis Offering Girdle to Emperor, brush
and wash, xvii century.
Eugene Victor Thaw: Camillo Procaccini, Italian, Young Jesus Preaching in the Temple, brush
and wash, xvi century.
PURCHASES
xvi century
Dutch: Unknown artist, Master of the Liechtenstein Collection, Adoration of the Shepherds,
pen and wash (Rogers Fund).
German: Hans Sebald Beham, The Presentation
in the Temple, pen and ink (Rogers Fund).
Italian: Attributed to Jacopo Bassano, Head of
Bishop, colored chalks (Pfeiffer Fund); Guglielmo
Caccia, Decorative Motifs, pen and wash; Luca
Cambiaso, Sole Oriente, pen and wash (Rogers
Fund); Annibale Carracci, Study of Angel, black
and white chalk, Three Putti, red chalk (both
Pfeiffer Fund), and Perseus and Medusa, pen and
wash; Jacopo da Empoli, Virgin, Child and Saints,
pen; Paolo Farinato, Allegorical Female Figure,
brush and wash, and Madonna and Child, brush
and wash; Battista Franco, Male Nude, red chalk;
Giovanni Battista Lombardelli, Death of Monk
or Nun, pen and wash; School of Michelangelo,
Scheme for Tomb of Julius II, pen and wash (all
Rogers Fund); Parmigianino. Justice, pen and
wash, and Studies of Moses and Eve, pen and
wash (both Pfeiffer Fund); Perino del Vaga, Ani-
pen and wash; Simon Vouet, Crouching Male
Figures, black chalk (both Rogers Fund).
Italian: Giovanni Baglione, Jesus with Joseph
and Mary, pen and wash (Rogers Fund); Guido
Cagnacci, Nude Female Figure, red chalk (Pfeiffer
Fund); Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Noah
Entering Ark, oil on paper (Rogers Fund), and
Satyr Listening to Youth Piping, oil on paper
(Pfeiffer Fund); attributed to Pietro da Cortona,
Satyrs Supporting Decorative Motif, pen; Gregorio de' Ferrari, Virgin in Glory, black chalk,
and Ceiling Design, pen and wash; Ciro Ferri,
Virgin Appearing to Saints, black chalk; Marc
Antonio Franceschini, St. Lawrence, pen and wash;
Luca Giordano, Virgin over Battlefield, brush and
wash, and Holy Trinity, red chalk; Giovanni
Francesco Grimaldi, Landscape, pen and wash;
Guercino, Kneeling Male Figures, pen; Gregorio
Lazzarini, Prophet, pen and wash; Carlo Maratta,
Judith and Holofernes, pen and red chalk, St. John
the Evangelist Explaining the Immaculate Conception, red chalk, and St. John the Evangelist
Explaining the Immaculate Conception, pen and
red chalk; Guido Reni, Study of Holofernes, black
and white chalk (all Rogers Fund); Cristoforo
Roncalli, Holy Family, black and white chalk
(Pfeiffer Fund), and Male Figure, red chalk; Giovanni Mauro della Rovere, Virgin and St. Dominic, pen and wash; Giovan Gioseffo dal Sole, Peasant Holding Staff, red chalk; Alessandro Tiarini,
Elevation of the Cross, pen and wash; unknown
artist, Ascension of Christ, oil on paper (all Rogers
Fund).
Spanish: Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Infant St.
John the Baptist, pen and wash (Rogers Fund).
xvIII century
English: Sir JamesThornhill, Baptism of Christ,
pen and wash (Rogers Fund).
French: Etienne de Lavallee-Poussin, Half Lunette, pen and wash; Francois Le Moyne, Alexander and Darius, wash and black chalk; Charles
Parrocel, Horsemen, red chalk; Francois-Andre
Vincent, Diana and Actaeon, black and white
chalk, Venus and Adonis, black and white chalk,
and Male Figure, black and white chalk; Baron
63
Vincentvan Gogh (1853-18go),
Dutch. Zouave. Pen, brown ink,
blue crayon, and water color.
i2 X 9 inches. Gift of Emanie
Philips, 62.5
1
DominiqueVivant-Denon,3 sheetsof caricatures,
pen and wash (all RogersFund).
German:ChristianWilhelmErnstDietrich,St.
FrancisReading,red chalk (RogersFund).
Italian: Faustino Bocchi, Burlesque Visit of
Ceremony,pen and wash;GiuseppeCades,Decorative Frieze, pen and wash; GasparoDiziani,
Ceiling Decoration,pen and wash, and Martyrdom of St. Andrew,pen and wash;GaetanoGandolfi,ApellesPaintingCampaspe,blackandwhite
chalk; Francescode' Mura, Assumptionof the
Virgin, brush and gouache (all Rogers Fund);
SebastianoRicci, Figure Studies, pen and wash
(Pfeiffer Fund); Luigi Vanvitelli, Project for
Statue of St. Peter, pen (RogersFund).
Spanish:MarianoSalvadorde Maella, Design
for Ceiling,washand blackchalk (RogersFund).
The Cloisters and the Pierpont Morgan Library. During March and April, Friday lectures were devoted to the popular Metropolitan Tours, which included both a series by
regular staff lecturers and three programs by
other speakers- The Old and New in Eastern
France, by Merrill Lake; Egypt and the
Sudan, by Virginia Burton of the Egyptian
Department; and Outstanding English Furniture Abroad with Counterparts in the Metropolitan Museum, by James Parker of the
Department of Western European Arts. Completing the series in May, Blanche R. Brown
gave four lectures on Travels in France.
Exploring the World of Art, the Saturday
xix century
subscriptionprogramfor young people of high
English: Edward Burne-Jones,The Passingof school age, opened in October with five lecVenus, brush and gouache;David Cox, A Piano tures on nineteenth
century painting by the
Lesson,water color (both RogersFund).
Dean
of
Education
and
Beatrice Farwell. The
French:JacquesLouisDavid, Leonidasat Therthe
to
second series, on The Greeks
response
mopylae,black chalk (RogersFund).
and Their Art, by Blanche R. Brown and
xx century
Stuart M. Shaw, was so enthusiastic that a
French:JacquesVillon, Portraitof Felix Barre,
similar program has been scheduled this fall
blackchalk (RogersFund).
for adults. Mr. Shaw has been interviewed on
JACOBBEAN, Curator
Channel 13 about his archaeological work on
the island of Samothrace, where he has participated for the past thirteen summers in a
of expeditions run by the Institute of
series
Education
Fine Arts of New York University. In addiIn addition to the regularly scheduled free tion, Mr. Shaw, an architect, was responsible
gallery talks offered each Tuesday and Thurs- for the design and construction of the island's
day, the Department included in its Friday hotel and archaeologicalmuseum.
The Sunday afternoon program of lectures
afternoon program in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium a number of lectures by mem- by invited guests included talks by Helen
bers of the curatorial staff. Following the pro- Lowenthal and John Hayward of the Victoria
grams in October and November by Beatrice and Albert Museum, Frank Brown from Yale,
Farwell on The Painter's Illusion and by Whitney Stoddard from Williams College,
Stuart M. Shaw on The American House and John Golding of the Courtauld Institute in
Its Furnishings, single talks were given in De- London, and other well-known scholars from
cember by James Biddle of the American various museums and universities in this counWing and Caroline Karpinski from the Print try and abroad.
In collaboration with the Board of EduDepartment.
In January, Alexander Lieber and Henry cation the Department continued its eight
Geldzahler, representing the Department of weekly programsin the fall and spring semesAmerican Paintings and Sculpture, offered a ters for the city's public high schools, the
series of four talks on the Background and programdrawing altogether about three thouDevelopment of 20th Century Art. During sand students, with their teachers, into the
the month of February, Angela C. Bowlin Museum's auditorium and galleries. During
discussed Medieval Art in Miniature, drawing the spring the usual Wednesday programs
heavily on masterpiecesof craftsmanshipfrom were offered on Mondays as well, to accom64
modate additional students and provide more
adequate staff guidance.
From the Museum Training Program II
given jointly by the Institute of Fine Arts of
New York University and the Museum four
graduate students were selected as Museum
III fellows, each to serve for one semester as
an apprentice in the department of his choice.
Through this program the Institute and the
Museum have established one of the principal
training centers in the country for curators
and conservators. Of the courses in the history of art given by Columbia University
after hours in the Museum, two were taught
by members of the curatorial staff, Caroline
Karpinski of the Print Department and Carl
C. Dauterman from the Department of Western European Arts.
THOMAS M. FOLDS,
Dean
EgyptianArt
The past year saw the completion of the first
major step toward the reconstruction of the
Egyptian galleries and the reorganizationand
reinstallation of our collections. Early in the
calendar year I962 the builders took possession of all of the main-floorgalleriesin Wing E
and the two southern galleriesof Wing H, and
the replacement of the ceilings and remodeling of the rooms themselves was begun and
advanced with gratifying speed. In preparation for the construction work the Department evacuated nine large rooms and stored
their numerous and often massive contents in
one of our larger northern galleries. At the
same time the galleries unaffected, for the
time being, by the work were rearranged so
as to enable us to retain on exhibition as many
as possible of the handsomer and more important objects from the galleriesunder construction, including the famousand popular Meketre models and some of our finer examples of
Old and Middle Kingdom sculpture. Meanwhile alteration and restudy of the scale model
of our projected new galleries was continued
throughout the year, resulting in a number
of interesting and effective changes in the
schemes originally adopted.
The most important accession of the year
is a standing statue representing an anonymous official, whose tomb was located at Gebelaw, a previously unrecorded site about
thirty miles north of Luxor. It is nearly three
feet high and is one of the few private statues
of the Old Kingdom made of quartzite. The
face shows a degree of characterization that
is found in some Old Kingdom reliefs but is
unexpected in so intractable a material as this,
and the workmanshipis of excellent quality in
every respect. Several details, including a distinct moustache, are preserved on the painted
surface. Ernst E. Kofler of Lucerne has presented us with two interesting, if fragmentary,
limestone statuettes from the same site; in all
three cases the figures are said to have been
mounted on secondary wooden bases, which
had disintegrated beyond salvage but evidently carriedthe names and titles of the deceased.
The absence of such information increases the
problem of dating, but from the style of his
statue it seems probable that the official in
question belongs to the Sixth Dynasty.
Departmental editing has been completed
on Hans Goedicke's Old Kingdom Reliefsfrom
Lisht ("Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition," XX), and
on two new picture books by Charlotte R.
Clark, Egyptian Jewelry and The Crafts and
Professionsof the Ancient Egyptians.
GIFTS
RECEIVED
HenryG. Fischer:Fragmentof a protodynastic
palette carved with the figuresof animals,slate,
about 3000 B.C.
ErnstE. Kofler:2 statuettes,limestone,headless
seatedman andlowerpartof a group,fromGebelaw, Upper Egypt, vi Dynasty.
DulaneyLogan:Upperpartof an altarmadefor
AmenemhetI, founderof the xnIDynasty, by his
son, Senwosret I, red granite, about I960 B.c.
PURCHASES
Old Kingdom:Statueof a provincialdignitary,
painted quartzite, from Gebelaw,Upper Egypt,
vi Dynasty (Dick Fund).
New Kingdom:Pair-statuetteof a priestof Bastet and his wife, Yotes-res,diorite,probablyfrom
Tell Basta (Bubastis)in the southeasterndelta,
early xvIII Dynasty (about I550 B.C.) (Joseph
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Statue of a provincial dignitary.
Egyptian(Gebelaw, Upper Egypt),
vs Dynasty (about 2345-2181
B.C.). Paintedquartzite.Height
354
inches. Dick Fund,
62.200
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947),
French. The Green Blouse, I924.
Oil on canvas. 40 X 267 inches.
The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson,
Jr. PurchaseFund
PulitzerBequest);24 collarpendants,gold inlaid during the trip. It was then installed in an airwith blue glass,and a pairof earrings,gold, from conditioned
vault, where it was kept under
the Treasureof the Three Princesses,xvIII Dynsurveillance over closed-circuit television.
asty, reign of Thutmose III (about 1480 B.C.)
On February 6 the picture was installed
(RogersFund).
in the Medieval Sculpture Hall, in the doorWILLIAM C. HAYES, Curator
way of the choir screen from the cathedral of
Valladolid. A fireproof niche, protected behind by a bulletproof metal plate, was installed in the opening, and the picture was
Paintings
European
hung against a background of the same mateThe most important event of the year for the rial used behind the statues in the Medieval
Department of Paintings was the exhibition Hall, which harmonized in color with the red
of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa -an event velvet outer frame. Instruments for the measquite unlike anything that has happened in urement of temperature and humidity were
the history of the loans of paintings between installed in the niche, and readingswere taken
countries. It is hoped, therefore, that an ac- daily. An iron railing kept spectators at a discount of some of the details of this exhibition tance of approximately eight feet from the
picture. It was guarded twenty-four hours a
may be of interest to our readers.
The Museum was advised of the French day by Secret Servicemen, New York City
Government's intention to exhibit the pic- detectives, and Museum personnel.
The crowds that came to see the picture
ture here in the late fall as an essential part of
its visit to the United States. Also, some time exceeded any that had been seen in the Mubefore the picture was sent, the Louvre gave seum before, surpassing those who came just
the Museum specifications for humidity and after the purchase of Rembrandt's Aristotle
temperature to be maintained in our galleries, in November I96I. These visitors' enjoyment
based upon conditions in the Grande Galerie of the painting was apparent, and their pawhere the painting is usually hung. During tience and enthusiasm can probably best be
the month preceding the visit, it proved pos- measuredby the record of Lincoln's Birthday.
sible to meet these conditions in the large On that holiday, the Museum did not open
Medieval Sculpture Hall and to maintain until I P.M. in the afternoon. It was a cold
them throughout the exhibition, within the winter day, and all morning rain alternated
with sleet. In spite of this, a crowd of more
limits requested.
on
Monthan four abreast,stretching over a city block,
went
to
The Curator
Washington
the
waited
as long as three hours to get into the
collect
the
at
to
picture
day, February 4,
the
Museum
to see the picture.
it
was
taken
off
When
National Gallery.
of
the most satisfying results of the
examined
One
was
its
surface
wall there,
carefully
in collaboration with representatives of the Mona Lisa's visit was the interest displayed
Louvre and the National Gallery, and the in other parts of the Museum. A great numwarp of the panel measured. The picture was ber, clearly not regular Museum visitors, took
packed, out of its frame, in the specially con- the occasion to see the Museum as a whole.
structed, hermetically sealed metal case in The European paintings galleries were as full
which it had been brought from France. The on weekdays as they usually are on weekends.
frame in which the picture is shown at the The largest number were attracted to the
Louvre, plus the velvet-covered outer frame parts of our collections where the quality is
specially made for the trip, traveled in a sepa- highest: to the impressionists and moderns rate box. The truck made the trip under the which are, of course, fashionable today - but
guardianship of the Secret Service. After also to the Dutch school (especially Remreaching the Museum, the painting was again brandt), the early Flemish, the Spanish sevenexamined, and a second measurement of the teenth century, and the Italian eighteenth
warp revealed that no changes had occurred century. The gallery containing works of the
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nineteenth century Salon painters was also
consistently popular. The Italian fourteenth
century and the Renaissance,in which we are
weakest, did not have the samedrawingpower,
which justifies the Museum's constant efforts
to improve our representation in these schools.
At the very time the Mona Lisa was on
exhibition the Museum also received as a loan
two beautiful and highly important Italian
Renaissancepaintings: Hercules and Antaeus,
and Hercules and the Hydra by Antonio Pollaiuolo. For many years they were treasuresof
the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, but were stolen
during the war by two German soldiers and
then disappeared. They were recovered in
California and were restored to the Delegation for Restitution of the Italian Government, represented by Rodolfo Siviero, Italian
Minister for the Restitution of Art. They were
shown in Washington and then brought to
New York, where they were exhibited for
three days. In the absence of newspaper publicity during the printers' strike, the Museum
informed several colleges in the area that the
pictures were here, and invited interested students to study them during their brief stay in
New York. Both small panels are in remarkable condition, and the Department was happy to be able to examine them.
Again, for the tenth consecutive year, the
Department organized a summer loan exhibition. This one contained 107 paintings, mostly
by French impressionistsand postimpressionists, from twenty-five private collections, augmented by French nineteenth and twentieth
century sculpture generously lent by Mrs.
Stephen C. Clark. This brilliant array, which
included paintings that had never been shown
before in this city, again proved to be of the
greatest interest to our public. Furthermore,
last winter Mrs. Nate B. Spingold and Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Ittleson, Jr. lent their superb
collections of paintings for display.
The Department has arrangedan unusually
large loan of sixty-two paintings to the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, a
project sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop
Rockefeller.
Among the new accessions is the imposing
Ecstasy of St. Francis by Tintoretto, given
by Robert Lehman, which makes a most significant addition to our collection of Venetian
painters. From the late sixteenth century also
dates the stylish portrait of an elegant lady
with a dog by the little-known Cremonese
artist Bernardino Campi, given anonymously.
Of great importance to the Museum's rich
collection of impressionistand postimpressionist paintings is the brilliant and luminous picture The Green Blouse, by Pierre Bonnard,
dating from his finest period, which was bought
with funds generously provided by Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Ittleson, Jr.
The acquisition two years ago of our famous
Aristotle by Rembrandt has initiated a more
intensive study of the Museum's large number
of works by this great master. The Museum's
conservatorshave carefully examined most of
his paintings in our collection, and in many
cases, through cleaning, or simply by refreshing old varnish, have brought out their intrinsic beauty with gratifying success. Among the
pictures that have been restored and placed
again on exhibition are The Auctioneer, Flora,
and the Portrait of a Man from the Marquand
Collection. Aristotle Contemplating the Bust
of Homer has also been cleaned, and found to
be in an excellent state of preservation. When
this program has been concluded, it is hoped
that the results can be shown in a special
exhibition.
The conclusion in the near future of several
laborious tasks will constitute major achievements for the Department. One of these is the
publication of the catalogue of French paintings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, now being edited. This thorough and
scholarly publication will not only document
one of the most important parts of the collection, but will complete the survey of the
Museum's French paintings from the fifteenth
century to the present. The long-awaited installation of air conditioning in the galleries
will be a further and most important step toward the better maintenance and preservation
of the paintings collections.
GIFTS
RECEIVED
CountessEdwardBismarck(additionalundivided
remainder
interest,subjectto a life estate
one-quarter
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Tintoretto(Jacopo Robusti)
(158- 1594), Italian. The Ecstasy
of St. Francis. Oil on canvas.
73 x Io82 inches. Gift of Robert
Lehman, 62.257
in the donor): Francisco de Goya, Spanish, Pepito
Costa y Bonello, oil on canvas, about 1813.
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Cummings: Roger de la
Fresnaye, French, Georges de Mire, oil on canvas,
about I9I7.
George R. Hann (third undivided one-fifth interest): Francesco di Giovanni Botticini, Italian, The
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Four Saints,
tempera on wood, xv century.
RudolfJ. Heinemann: Horace Vernet, French,
Bertel Thorvaldsen with the Bust of Vernet, oil
on canvas, about I835.
Dr. and Mrs. Franz H. Hirschland (partial interest): Paul Cezanne, French, Gardanne, oil on canvas, about 1885.
Robert Lehman: Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti),
Italian, The Ecstasy of St. Francis, oil on canvas,
xvi century.
Marion G. MacLean (bequest): Gabrielle Debillemont Chardon, French, Mrs. Hamilton MacLean, and Portrait of a Boy in a Blue Smock,
miniatures, both water color on ivory, late xix
century.
James A. Moffett II (subject to a life estate in the
donor): Barthel Bruyn the Elder, German, Portraits of a Young Man and of a Young Woman,
both oil on wood, 1533.
Eduard and Helen Naumann: Unknown artist,
German, Frederick the Great, enamel miniature
portrait (box cover), xviii century.
Mrs. Edna H. Sachs (remaining undivided onequarterinterest,subject to a life estate in the donor):
Pierre Auguste Renoir, French, Bathers and
Washerwomen, oil on canvas, 1901.
Sam Salz: Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, French,
La Route de Saint-Non, oil on canvas, xx century.
Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus (remaining undividedonehalf interest, subject to a life estate in the donor):
Unknown artist, Spanish, Six Apostles, tempera
on wood, xv century.
Katrin S. Vietor, in loving memory of Ernest G.
Vietor (further one-tenth undivided interest, subject
to a life estate in the donor): Camille Pissarro,
French, Boulevard Montmartre, Winter Morning,
oil on canvas, I897.
Mrs. Robert R. Young: 23 paintings by various
artists, mostly of the British school, xvIIm-xx century.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Wrightsman: 2 Italian
frames, xvIII century.
Anonymous: Bernardino Campi, Italian (Cremona), Portrait of a Lady, oil on canvas, xvi
century; (one-quarter interest): Philips Koninck,
Dutch, Wide River Landscape, oil on canvas, xvII
century.
PURCHASES
Pierre Bonnard, French, The Green Blouse,
oil on canvas, 1924 (The Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Ittleson, Jr. Purchase Fund).
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LOANS
ACCEPTED
(exclusive of Special Exhibitions)
Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard: Claude Monet,
French, Trees in Spring, oil on canvas, xix century.
Paul Ganz: Giacinto Gimignani, Italian, The
Stoning of St. Stephen, oil on canvas, xvii century.
Governmentof the French Republic: Leonardo da
Vinci, Italian, Mona Lisa, oil on wood, early xvi
century.
Dr. and Mrs. Franz H. Hirschland: Lucas Cranach the Elder, German, Portrait of a Bearded
Man, oil on wood, xvi century.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson,Jr.: Georges Braque,
French, Still Life with Purple Plums, oil on canvas, 1935; Paul Cezanne, French, Springtime,
Auvers, I875, and Bathers, about I89o, both oil
on canvas; Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas, French,
Waiting for the Cue, pastel on paper, about 1878;
Paul Gauguin, French, Still Life with a HeadShaped Vase, oil on canvas, i889; Edouard Manet,
French, Mery Laurent, pastel on canvas, I882;
Henry Matisse, French, Fruits and Flowers of
Nice, oil on canvas, I925; Claude Monet, French,
On a Bench in the Park, oil on canvas, 1872;
Berthe Morisot, French, The Balcony, oil on canvas, xix century; Camille Pissarro, French, The
Port of Rouen, oil on canvas, i898; Pierre Auguste
Renoir, French, Summer, oil on canvas, I884, and
Paul Cezanne, pastel on paper, i880; Alfred Sisley, British, The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne,
oil on canvas, I872; Edouard Vuillard, French,
Entrance to the Villa, oil on canvas, I903.
Marquis de La Begassiere: Maurice Utrillo,
French, Street Scene, oil on canvas, xx century;
Edouard Vuillard, French, The Yellow Awning,
oil on canvas, xx century.
Mrs. Nate B. Spingold: Pierre Bonnard, French,
Basket of Fruit, and The Red Roof, both oil on
canvas, xx century; Georges Braque, French, Still
Life, oil on canvas, xx century; Paul Ce'zanne,
French, Bathers Resting, oil on canvas, xix century; Jean Commere, Still Life- Flowers, oil on
canvas, xx century; Jean Baptiste Camille Corot,
French, Landscape, Gust of Wind in a Meadow,
oil on canvas, xix century; Gustave Courbet,
French, Snow Scene, oil on canvas, xix century;
Edgar Hilaire Germain Degas, French, Portrait
of Leopold Livert, oil on canvas, xix century;
Charles Dufresne, French, La Toilette, oil on canvas, xx century; Pier Francesco Fiorentino, Italian, Madonna and Child with St. John and an
Angel, tempera and oil on wood, xv century; Jean
Baptiste Greuze, French, Head of a Boy, oil on
canvas, xvIII century; Juan Gris, Spanish, Still
Life, oil on canvas, I9I6; Moise Kisling, Polish,
Woman Making Her Toilet, oil on canvas, I914;
Amedeo Modigliani, Italian, Little Blonde Girl
in Blue, oil on canvas, xx century; Claude Monet,
French, Mme Camille Monet, xix century, and
The Road at Vetheuil, i878, both oil on canvas;
Berthe Morisot,French,The MozartSonata,oil
on canvas, xix century; Jean Baptiste Pater,
French,War,and Peace, both oil on wood, xvIII
century; Pablo Picasso, Spanish, The Races at
Longchamps,and SpanishLandscape,both oil on
canvas,xx century;CamillePissarro,French,The
Church of St. Jacques,Dieppe, I9oI, Sunset in
Brittany,1874,bothoil on canvas,Viewof Eragny,
I890, andThe Shepherd,xix century,both drawingson paper;Frans Pourbusthe Younger,Flemish, Portraitof a Noblewoman,oil on canvas,early
xvII century;PierreAugusteRenoir,French,La
Promenade,oil on canvas,I870; GeorgesRouault,
French, Pierrette, Crucifixion,and The ClownSelf-Portrait,all oil on canvas,xx century; Ker
Xavier Roussel,French, Still Life- Flowers,and
Still Life- Fruit, both oil on canvas,xx century;
Chaim Soutine, French, Womanin Black, oil on
canvas,xx century;Titian, Italian,Pope Paul III,
oil on canvas, xvi century; Henri de ToulouseLautrec,French,Manwith a Beard,oil on canvas,
xix century;MauriceUtrillo, French,A La Belle
Gabrielle,oil on canvas, I912; Louise Elisabeth
Vigee-Lebrun,French, Mme Labille-Guiard,oil
on canvas,xvIII century; Mauricede Vlaminck,
French, Autumn Landscape,oil on canvas, xx
century;EdouardVuillard,French,M. and Mme
Nathanson,oil on wood, The Conversation,oil on
paper, Still Life-After the Meal, oil on canvas,
all xx century; Edgar Hilaire GermainDegas,
French, 2 dancers,both bronze,xix-xx century.
Mrs. RogerW. Straus:RembrandtHarmensz.
van Ryn, Dutch, Old Ladywith BlackHeaddress,
oil on canvas,i660.
UffiziGallery,Florence,throughtheItalianDelegationfor Restitution:Antonio Pollaiuolo,Italian,
Herculesand Antaeus,and HerculesSlaying the
Hydra, both oil on wood, xv century.
Anonymous:Hans Beckmann,German,2 landscapes,oil on canvas,xix century; Carl Gustav
Carus,German,Landscapewith RisingMoon, oil
on canvas,xix century; Paul Cezanne,French,
Housewith Red Roof, and Mont SainteVictoire,
both oil on canvas,xix century;ChristianDahl,
Norwegian,landscape,oil on canvas,xix century;
Honore Daumier, French, La Blanchisseuse,oil
on canvas,xix century; CasparDavid Friedrich,
German,3 landscapes,all oil on canvas,xix century; FrancescoGuardi,Italian,View of Venice,
oil on canvas,xvIII century; Max Liebermann,
German,Tiergartenin Berlin,andPortraitof Mr.
Panofsky,bothoil on canvas,xx century;Edouard
Manet,French,The WateringCan, oil on canvas,
xix century;Hansvon Marees,German,Fraulein
Zur Westen, oil on canvas, xix century; Karl
Rottmann,German,landscape,oil on canvas,xix
century; Max Slevogt, German,allegoricalsubject, water coloron paper,xx century.
THEODOREROUSSEAU, Curator
Far EasternArt
Gifts from severalfriends of the Museum have
been the chief additions to the Far Eastern
collections this year. A standing figure of Buddha, of great beauty and dating from the
Northern Ch'i period, is an anonymous gift in
honor of the late A. Schoenlicht. This piece
has long been well known to scholarsand gives
the Museum an example from a short dynasty
hitherto sparsely represented.
Tiny in comparison is a seated wood figure
of Kuan Yin, given by R. Hatfield Ellsworth,
which, aside from its quality, adds to the small
number of dated wood statues. It is inscribed,
on a paper found in the interior, the first day
of the tenth moon of the seventeenth year of
K'ang-hsi, or December 14, 1678.
Edwin C. Vogel presented ten superb pieces
of porcelain, all of the K'ang-hsi period, from
his unique collection, on loan since I957 and a
star attraction in our great ceramicscollection.
There came to the Museum this year from
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller the loan of a
very famous and beautiful Chinese sculpture
of the early T'ang period. It has been here
before on loan, and was shown at the International Exhibition of Chinese Art in London
in I935, at which time it was part of the collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. Mrs.
Rockefeller gave most of her Chinese sculpture to the Museum in I942. This loan is a
very happy event for us and our visitors.
A few notable purchases have been made.
A fine figure of Vishnu in bronze from South
India, early Chola period, was purchasedfrom
the gift fund for Asian art of John D. Rockefeller III. Also from the same fund the Museum acquired a Japaneselacquered wood sculpture, the portrait of a Zen priest, done in the
fourteenth century. This is the only known
example outside Japan of the great tradition
of portrait sculpture. A magnificent silk tapestry imperial court robe and overcoat of the
type of the Kuo Ch'in Wang robes were purchased. Kuo Ch'in Wang was the seventeenth
son of the emperor K'ang-hsi and died in
I738. The textiles from his tomb are a valuable landmark in the history of Chinese textiles.
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Vishnu. South Indian, early Chola
period,first half of the x century.
Bronze. Height 34 inches. Purchase,
John D. RockefellerIII Gift,
62.265
Two remarkable Tibetan objects were acquired. One, a silk tapestry coat used for
temple dances, a composite of an incomparable K'ang-hsi robe and fragments of tapestry
and brocades of the period, has a design of
dragons and clouds in vivid colors in a dazzlement against a gold background. The other, a
very remarkable temple painting unusual in
that it has three central figures (most Tibetan
paintings have only one) is one of two such
paintings thus far discovered. Another purchase is a seated terracotta Buddha on a lotus
pedestal, of the sixteenth to seventeenth century, which comes from Nepal.
The fifty-eight porcelains of the John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., bequest that were shown in
the Room of Recent Accessions from July to
October I962 have been temporarily installed
on the balcony of the Great Hall.
New flooring is being constructed in the
south galleries. After this is completed, a similar reconstruction of the northern section will
begin. The energies of the staff members are
bent on plans for the reinstallation of the
whole Far East Department.
Detailfrom coat of a lay aristocrat,
made upfrom an imperial K'angGIFTS
RECEIVED
hsi robe in silk and metal tapestry
Alice
Kay Bache: 2 robes for the N6 dance: one,
andfragments of tapestrychairsilk
and
stripsof gold and silver paperwith peastripsand brocadedsatins. Tibetan, cock roundels, late xvIII
century; the other with
xvIII
century. Rogers Fund, 62.206
large rosettes, silk and strips of gold paper, xix
century; kimono rack with gold lacquered design
of pawlonia,andmetalfittings,xvIII-xix century,
all Japanese.
FrederickBaekeland: Hanging scroll, landscape
afterNi Tsan,attributedto Ch'i Chai-chia(active
mid-xvii century), ink on paper, signed and dated
165 , Chinese.
Edna Bahr: Lamaist headdress with streamers,
painted satin, xvIII-xix century, Chinese.
Mrs. Walter G. de Berg: 2 illustrated textbooks
for the study of painting, xix century, Japanese.
Herman Block: Priest robe, satin patterned in
silk and flat gold with clouds and dragons, xvIII
century, Japanese.
Sidney Cardozo: 8 strips of printed cotton by
artists of the Japanese craft revival, xx century.
Citizens' Committeefor the Army, Navy, and Air
Force, Mrs. Rollin Browne, Vice President, Everybody's Thrift Shop: Length of satin couched and
embroidered in gold and silks with owls and lo-
tuses,xix century, Chinese.
CharlesD. Dickey: Chasuble, satin embroidered
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with flowers and leaves in silks, made in China for
the European market, xviiI century.
R. Hatfield Ellsworth: Seated Kuan Yin, wood
with traces of lacquer and gilt, containing relics
with inscription dated in concordance with 1678,
Chinese.
William M. Emery: Rug with medallions of fiveclawed dragons, silk pile, wrapped metal on cotton
warp and weft, xix century, Chinese.
CountessBernard d'Escayrac (subject to a life estate in the Count and Countess d'Escayrac): Food
vessel (kuei), Shang dynasty (I523-I028 B.C.),
Chinese.
Robert Goelet: 2 imperial jade seals, attributed
to the xvII century, Chinese.
Jeannette B. Phillips: Court robe for a eunuch,
satin couched and embroidered in gold and silks,
xix century,Chinese.
Mrs. Edna H. Sachs (subject to a life estate in the
donor): Vase, famille jaune porcelain, K'ang-hsi
period (1662-1722), Chinese.
Edwin C. Vogel: o1 porcelains: pair of yellow
beakers, 3 famille verte vases with Persian design,
pair of figures of Hsi Wang Mu and Ho Hsien Ku,
2 figures of men, and figure of Hsi Wang Mu riding on a lion, all K'ang-hsi period (1662-1722),
Chinese.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexis Zalstem-Zalessky: 3 paintings illustrating scenes from the Vessantara Jataka,
colors on paper, Northern Thai style, late xix-xx
century, Thai.
Anonymous gift in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
H. Cory: Woman's informal robe (uchikake) with
chrysanthemums and maple leaves in satin damask
embroidered in silk and gold, with various tie-dye
techniques, xix century style, early xx century,
Japanese.
Anonymous gift in honor of A. Schoenlicht:
Standing figure of Buddha, stone, Northern Ch'i
period (550-577), Chinese.
PURC
HASES
Painting: Tanka, colors on cloth, xvIn-xvIII
century, Lamaist (The Manheim Foundation,
Inc., Gift).
Sculpture: Vishnu, bronze, early Chola period,
first half of the x century, South Indian; portrait
of a priest, lacquered wood, Muromachi period,
xiv century, Japanese (both John D. Rockefeller
III Gift); seated Buddha on lotus, with halo, terracotta relief, xvI-xvII century, Nepalese (Seymour
Fund).
Textiles: Coat of lay aristocrat, a composite of
an imperial K'ang-hsi robe in silk and metal tapestry and fragments of tapestry chair-strips and
brocaded satins, xvIII century, Tibetan; 2 breadths
of patterned silk, one with cracked ice pattern, the
other with roundels of bats, archaic dragons, and
ju-i medallions, xvIII century, Chinese (all Rogers
Fund); woman'scourt robe and matchingovercoat, silk and metal tapestry(k'o-ssu)with fiveclaweddragons,type of Kuo Ch'in Wang, early
xvIIIcentury,Chinese(SeymourFund);woman's
informaljacket, gauze couchedin gold with garden borderand medallionsof ioo Antiques,xix
century, Chinese(Gifts in memoryof Theodore
Y. Hobby).
LOANS
ACCEPTED
Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Eilenberg: Mukhalinga,
stone,late Guptaperiod,aboutvi century,North
Central Indian; Bodhisattva, bronze, probably
fromKediri,East Java,x-xi century,Indonesian.
Nelson A. Rockefeller: Bodhisattva, marble,
T'ang dynasty (6I8-906), Chinese.
Caroline Burke Swan: Karttikeya on his pea-
cock, copper,about xiv century, Nepalese.
Anonymous: 2 heads, terracotta, Gupta period,
v-vi century,NortheastIndian;Yakshi,sandstone,
Mathuraregion,late Guptastyle, vi-vIIi century,
Indian.
ALAN PRIEST, Curator
Greekand RomanArt
The most important purchase of the year was
a gold phiale, or libation bowl, of the third
century B.C.,published at length in the December 1962 Bulletin. It is of Greek workmanship, but bearsa Carthaginianinscription;
there exist only a half dozen such bowls in
this precious material. When the phiale was
placed on exhibition, it was shown with other
libation bowls in the collections of the Department in a variety of materials-gold, silver,
bronze, tin, terracotta, and glass. To this exhibition Joseph V. Noble and Lawrence J.
Majewski kindly lent libation bowls in their
collections. Other important acquisitions include a Chalcidian neck-amphora, here illustrated for the first time, and an Attic aryballos
(oil bottle), attributed to the Amasis painter,
to be published later. Despite its very small
size, the aryballos shows more than twentyfive human and divine figures, offering a fair
cross-sectionof the painter's known repertory,
and, in addition, two groups of lions and their
prey, never before encountered in the work
of this artist.
The erection of the new Library necessitated the demolition of the small room adjacent to the large Roman gallery on the main
floor, which for over fifty years had housed
the wall paintings from the cubiculum of a
villa at Boscoreale. The wall paintings have
been moved into a newly built room off the
Great Hall, just in front of the entrance to the
Roman Gallery. In the new setting the original architecture has been reproduced more
faithfully; in addition, a Roman mosaic from
a house in the vicinity of Prima Porta, given
anonymously to the Museum in I945 but never before shown, has been incorporated in the
mosaic floor of the room.
Much work has been done, both in conservation and research, on the collections of
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman bronzes. A
choice selection of Greek and Roman glass,
not shown since I949, has been put back on
exhibition.
The Department was honored with the visits of several distinguished scholars, including
Bernard Ashmole of Oxford, who has been
doing researchon our marble sculptures;Hansjorg Bloesch of Winterthur and Zurich, who
has studied our vases for his comprehensive
investigation of Attic shapes; and Pierre Devambez of the Louvre, who studied our sculptures and bronzes in connection with publication of his excavations in Greece and Turkey.
GIFTS
RECEIVED
Dietrich von Bothmer:Black-figuredsegment
cup, vi centuryB.C.,Attic; black-glazedbowl,late
v century B.C., Attic.
HarrietFaxon: Head of a woman, terracotta,
said to be from Vari, ini century B.C.,Attic.
Mrs. NikolaosP. Goulandris: Red-figured pelike,
attributed to the Helbig Reverse Group, early
iv century B.C.,Attic.
MarjorieJ. Milne: Bowl, terracotta,from the
island of Mochlos, about I500-I450 B.C., Minoan.
Alfred Wolkenberg: Metal reproduction of an
Etruscanbronze statuette in the City Art Museum, St. Louis.
PURCHASES
Phiale (libation bowl), gold, iii century B.C.,
Greek (RogersFund); geometric oinochoe, vIII
century B.C., Greek; kothon, pyxis, and lid of
pyxis, vii-vi century B.C.,Corinthian; aryballos in
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Black-figuredneck-amphora.
Attributedto the Painterof the
CambridgeHydria. Chalcidian,
VI century B.C. Height II1z
inches. Dodge Fund, 63.1 .3
A wall relief and a boat model
excavatedby the Museum's
Egyptianexpeditionsillustratelife
along the Nile 4,000 years ago.
From the Junior Museum exhibition Archaeology-Exploring the
Past
the shapeof a horse'shead, vi centuryB.C., Rho- sistently asked over the years. The exhibition
dian; black-glazedskyphos,v centuryB.c., Attic; greatly stimulates interest in the study of hiskyathosand jug, vi-v centuryB.c., Daunian;redtory and provides backgroundfor understandfiguredkylix,iv centuryB.C.,Campanian(allHelen
H. MertensGift); black-figuredolpe, vi century ing the Museum's extensive collections of ancient art. Dramatic display techniques include
B.C., Etruscan (Richard A. Van Every Gift);
black-figuredaryballos,attributedto the Amasis animated transparencies,photo murals, talkPainter, about 570-560 B.C., Attic (Rogers Fund);
ing labels, peephole viewers, a walk-in tomb
black-figuredneck-amphora,attributed to the in facsimile
reproduction, and a push-button
Painterof the CambridgeHydria,vi centuryB.C.,
Chalcidian(DodgeFund);red-figuredbell-krater, movie.
A preview for Members' children and their
late v century B.C., Attic (Rogers Fund).
parents took the form of an Open House on
September 22. Guest archaeologists,film showACCEPTED
LOANS
souvenirs, and refreshments inspired by
Art Museum, PrincetonUniversity:Black-figured ings,
all contributed to understanding
the
subject
Klitomenes
as
from
Sardis,signedby
potskyphos
ter, vi centuryB.C.,Attic; black-figuredPanathe- and enjoyment of the new exhibition.
naic amphora, late vi century B.C., Attic.
For the first time a series of illustrated lecCountessBernard d'Escayrac: Black-figured am- tures,
supplementing the special exhibition,
phora,attributed to the Painter of Louvre F 6, was offered
by subscription on Saturday afabout 560 B.C., Attic.
in
the
ternoons
Junior Museum Auditorium.
Mrs. Nikolaos P. Goulandris: Grave relief of
lecture
was
Each
given by a well-known arSosipatra and Kallistrate, daughter of TheoAttic.
iv
drew
who
B.c.,
phantos,marble, century
chaeologist
upon his own experiAntony G. Lykiardopoulos: Black-figured lekyences in presenting a picture of recent disthos, vi century B.C.,Eretrian.
coveries in the field of his special interest.
LawrenceJ. Majewski:Phiale, bronze, vnI-vi
For the eighth season a series of unusual
century B.C., Anatolian.
concerts
for children was offered. The emphaMr. and Mrs. John de Menil: Statuette of a horse,
Greek.
sis
in
B.C.,
bronze,vIII century
previous years has ranged from characMr. and Mrs. Jan Mitchell: Black-figured oinoteristics of different instruments, through muchoe and kylix, vII-vi century B.c., Corinthian;
sical literature of specific periods, to programs
black-figuredlekythos, vi century B.c., Eretrian; of serious music selected and
presented by
black-figuredkylix, signed by Pamphaiosas potter, late vi century B.C.,Attic; red-figuredbell- eminent soloists and ensembles, particularly
krater,attributedto the TarporleyPainter,early for children who were studying music. This
iv centuryB.C.,Apulian;red-figuredcalyx-krater,
year six operas were introduced, narrated by
iv century B.C., Apulian.
Boris Goldovsky. Mr. Goldovsky's ability to
Joseph V. Noble: Phiale, polychrome,late vi
into the story fascinating details of hisweave
centuryB.C.,Attic.
tory, biography, and musical form made these
DIETRICHVON BOTHMER, Curator
programs singularly understandable and enjoyable to young audiences.
Two loan exhibitions of children's paintings
from abroad were shown in the Studio: Children's Paintings of Bible Stories, lent by the
World Council of Christian Education, and
JuniorMuseum
Paintings by Boys of Southern Rhodesia, a
new selection lent by Mrs. Harold Hochschild.
the
Junior
the
Past,
Archaeology-Exploring
Museum's current exhibition, opened Sept- During the remainder of the year changing
tember 23, i962 and will continue for several exhibitions of the work of Members' children
years. More than three hundred objects from enrolled in the Saturday Studio Hours were
eleven departments have been brought to- presented.
Three earlier exhibitions originally organgether to illustrate this theme. It was chosen
for its great fascination to children, as indi- ized by the Junior Museum for showing in the
cated by the questions they have most per- Studio completed two years of national circu72
lation through the Traveling Exhibition Service of the Smithsonian Institution and were
returned to the lenders. These were Drawings
and Paintings by European Children, Designs
by Children of Ceylon, and Children to Children: An Exchange Exhibition from Italy.
School appointments for the Archaeology
program and for gallery guidance in the permanent collections were booked to capacity
throughout the year and many, many requests
had to be turned down. During the exhibition
of the Mona Lisa, when the Museum admitted
school classes between 8:30 and 9:30 on week-
day mornings, members of the Junior Museum staff, assisted by our Board of Education
supervisor and teacher and a former staff
member who volunteered to help, introduced
11,352 children in 315 groups to this famous
picture.
The Junior Museum, the New York Junior
League, and the Board of Education jointly
developed a new afternoon program for elementary schools in New York City's Higher
Horizons Program, a program designed to
raise the sights of children from culturally
deprived homes. The Junior Museum staff
trained seventeen volunteers from the Junior
League to conduct guided tours in the American Wing and the Archaeology exhibition.
The programhas been working smoothly, and
all concerned are enthusiastic about this cooperative method of meeting an educational
need.
LOUISE CONDIT, Assistant Dean in Charge
TheLibrary
the Museumstaff and the public-scholars,
From
graduatestudents,andotherresearchers.
July 1962 through June 1963, 17,285 readers
requested 84,288 books and periodicals. This
year 4,819 volumes, including 2,088 gifts, were
added to the collection, showing an increase
in acquisitions of 2,092 volumes, compared to
the I96I-I962
14,213
new cards in its catalogue. The staff
displayed its versatility by assisting other departments of the Museum with translations
of over eighty-five letters.
Listed below are several of the outstanding
gifts and purchases acquired by the Library.
A complete list of donors will be found on
pages 86-88.
GIFTS
RECEIVED
Tsuyoshi Asano and Takatoshi Misugi: Old Chinese Art, ed. Takatoshi Misugi, I961.
Cassa di Risparmiodi Roma: Via del Corso, 961.
Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum: Over
I,ooo Americanand European sales catalogues,
I870-I960.
Calvin S. Hathaway: EquestrianStatues (xIx-xx
centuryscrapbookscompiledby the donor),I962,
5 volumes.
PURCHASES
The Art Instituteof Chicago:Indexto Art PeriII volumes; Emile Dacier: Cataodicals, I962,
logues de Ventes et Livrets de Salons, illustres par
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1909-1921, 6 volumes
(both Rogers Fund); Treasures of the Shosoin,
I961-1962, 3 volumes (Rogers Fund and Special
Library Appropriation); Bibliotheca Smithiana, seu
Catalogue librorum D. Josephi Smithii Angli per
cognomina authorum dispositus, I755 (Special Library Appropriation).
PHOTOGRAPH
ART
REFERENCE
LIBRARY
It is a pleasure to report that the construction
of the Thomas J. Watson Library is progressing according to schedule. It is expected to be
completed before the opening of the New
York World's Fair in the spring of i964.
The Library continues its excellent record
of service despite temporary quarters on the
ground floor. The decrease in space has not
materially affected the use of the Library by
figures.
Since July I962 the Library catalogued
5,416 volumes, typed 24,643 cards, and filed
AND
SLIDE
LIBRARY
During the year 2,839 loans totaling I42,194
slides were made, compared to 2,479 loans
consisting of I28,576 slides in the corresponding period last year. Not included in these
circulation figures is a total of 18,183 slides
consulted in the department. Staff and guest
lecturers who participated in the Museum's
programs borrowed 29,66I slides, and of this
number 1,280 were specially purchased from
the Lecture Series Fund. The number of slides
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Lamp with handleterminatingin
knobs and caninefinials. Byzantine, v-vi century. Bronze. Height
82 inches. Dodge Fund, 62.185
catalogued and added to the collection during
the year totaled 10,249.
To make the slides in the collection more
easily available to the increasing number of
borrowersand to provide for the rapidly expanding files of 2 x 2 color slides, cabinets for
housing an additional 20,000 slides were purchased. During the past few years special viewing equipment for slides has been designed
and built by Museum personnel to facilitate
the study of new slides for addition to the collection and to expedite the choice of slides by
the lecturers. A total of 70,069 reference photographs were used for study purposes in answer to a total of 427 requests, of which 175
were from the Museum staff. Thirteen hundred and forty-three reference photographs
were catalogued.
Salesof I ,39 I black-and-whitephotographic reproductions pertaining to the Museum's
collections were made. Rentals of color transparencies of the Museum's collections to be
used for publication purposes numbered 634,
representing an increase of 234 over the preceding year. Of the total number rented, 120
were made on special order, as compared with
72 during the last year. These figures indicate
a steadily increasing demand for color reproductions of the Museum's objects for many
types of books and periodicals.
Only a partial number of additions to the
Photograph and Slide Library can be cited
here; a complete list of donors will be found
on page 88.
GIFTS
RECEIVED
William Keighley: 1,560 color slides of the architecture, painting, sculpture, and mosaics from the
Holy Land and Italy.
Joseph Turner:6I color slides of paintingsin
Europeanand Americancollections.
Irwin Untermyer:2I3 black-and-white slides cor-
respondingto the illustrationsin the fifth volume
on his collection, Bronzes, Other Metalwork, and
Sculpture.
PURCHASES
Photographs: Paintings and sculpture of the
Color Slides: Architecture: Austrian and German baroque; Italian; Spanish. Drawings from
the Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth. Paintings: American, xx century; European paintings
in Berlin, Munich, and Paris; paintings, sculpture,
and other arts in the Armory Show 5oth Anniversary Exhibition of i963 (all Special Library Ap-
propriation).Greek architectureand sculpture,
European paintings and sculpture in museums in
Italy and Spain (all Lecture SeriesFund).
The Slide Library received 2,50I color slides
from the PhotographStudio. These slides reproduce the Museum's collections and loans, including
Far Eastern ceramics and textiles; Near Eastern
miniature paintings and rugs; American and European paintings; Western European furniture; xix
century glass.
JAMES HUMPHRY III, Chief Librarian
MedievalArt
and The Cloisters
THE
MAIN
BUILDING
Among the Department's new acquisitions
was a rarefourteenth century German wooden
casket, of small size, its sides decorated with
scenes of courtship. It is enlivened with rhymes
that may be freely translated:
The Man: A boon I seek
With thee to speak.
The Lady: Speak up, my boy
I am not coy.
He:
I will be thine.
She:
Thy pledge is mine.
He:
In truth I woo;
Thou wilt not rue.
The back portrays a variety of the medieval
game of quintain.
To the group of early bronzes whose acqui-
sition was announced in last year's Annual
Report has been added a rare type of lamp,
attributed to the fifth or sixth century from
Syria. The shape of the lamp itself is conventional for the late Roman and Early Christian
periods, but the handle is unusual in that it
Velazquezexhibitionin Madridin I960;paintings curls up into a series of fantastic spirals ending
in the exhibition of Spanish painting in Paris,
in canine heads and suggesting a pack of runJanuary-AprilI963; drawingsfrom the Devonshire Collection at Chatsworth(SpecialLibrary ning hounds.
A welcome addition to the Museum's series
Appropriation).
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of Byzantine steatites and related ivories is a is so high in artistic quality, so ambitious in
set of small steatite plaques, showing Christ in design, and so complex in a literary and theoMajesty surrounded by representationsof the logical sense that it can be called one of the
twelve Feasts of Our Lord and groups of ap- two or three greatest existing treasuresof Roostles, prophets, patriarchs, saints, and mar- manesque ivory carving. Represented on the
tyrs. Datable in the late Byzantine period, ends and in the central medallions are scenes
from the Old and New Testaments and symthey are in a rare state of preservation.
work
for
the
of
medibols of the Evangelists. In addition, the front
Preliminary
catalogue
eval sculpture was continued by the members is decorated with the branches representing
of the Department. The Associate Curator the living wood of the Cross and the back
completed his manuscript on French monu- with eighteen prophets who hold scrolls inmental entombments of the fifteenth and six- scribed with texts. These texts are taken, for
teenth centuries.
the most part, from the Old Testament, and
of
the
George Szab6, formerly
Hungarian prophesy and extol the inevitability of the
National Museum and assigned to the Medi- coming of Christ, his Passionand Resurrection.
eval Department as a Museum III fellow in
Another important acquisition of the Rothe New York University training program, manesque period was a complete sculptured
worked extensively on the bronze aquamanilia marble doorway made in the last decades of
in the Museum and at The Cloisters and on the twelfth century for the church of San
other research projects.
Leonardo al Frigido near Carrara,Italy. The
portal, published several times as a work by
the Tuscan sculptor Biduinus, has a handsome
GIFT RECEIVED
lintel representing the Entry of Christ into
Anonymous:Plaque of applique figures with
Jerusalem, and on one of the jambs a large
champleveenamel on copper-gilt,late xmiicenfigure of St. Leonard freeing a prisoner from
tury, French (Limoges).
his chains.
Virginand Child supportedby
Four late Gothic sculptures in wood were threeangels. German,late xv
PURCHASES
also purchased for the Cloisters collection: an century.Linden wood, gilded and
Bronzemetalwork:Oil lampwithhandleformed
statue of St. Margaret, said to have polychromed.Height 184 inches.
of curling, antler-likeprojectionsterminatingin imposing
been carved by the Austrian sculptor Michael The CloistersCollection,63.7
knobsand caninefinials,v-vi century, Byzantine
Pacher for the Franciscan church in Salzburg;
(Dodge Fund).
Bronzemetalworkon iron core: Upper arm of a delicately carved statue of Mary Magdalene
cross,x century, Byzantine(FletcherFund).
by a sculptor related to the school of Veit
Steatite: 13 plaques representingChrist surStoss; a magnificent and very appealing Virgin
roundedby the Twelve Feastsof Our Lord and
and
Child with original paint and gilding,
other scenes, xIII or xiv century, Byzantine,
slightly over life-size, attributed to the Aus(FletcherFund).
Woodwork: Casket (Minnekastchen), poplar trian sculptor Jacob Kaschauer;and an exquiwood, end of the xiv century, Alsatian(Rogers site small statuette of the Virgin and Child
Fund).
effortlesslysupported by three kneeling angels
with upswept wings and swirling drapery,
WILLIAM H. FORSYTH, Associate Curator
richly gilded as if it were a work in precious metals.
THE
CLOISTERS
For the winter months (December 14, I962
The most exciting acquisition of the year and through March 17, I963) we were privileged
indeed one of the most important in the his- to have on exhibition in the Treasury a selectory of The Cloisters is a Romanesque cross tion of over seventy manuscript pages from
of walrus ivory, almost two feet tall, carved the private collection of the late Georges Wilwith extraordinaryrichnessby an English artist denstein. In spite of the New York newspaper
for the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds in the blackout, the exhibition received enthusiastic
second half of the twelfth century. The cross notices in the press, even from as far away as
75
London. We are grateful for the opportunity
to show to our public so many fine examples
of a great art of the Middle Ages.
The Christmas season was again made festive by two memorable concerts of fifteenth
century music by the New York Pro Musica
Motet Choir under the direction of Noah
Greenberg, supplemented by boy choristers
from the Church of the Transfiguration. At
the Garden Party for Members on June II,
the wind ensemble of the New York Pro Musica presented a delightful program of instrumental music from one of the earliest printed
collections of music, published in Venice in
1501.
St. Mary Magdalene. German,late
xv century.Linden wood. Height
481 inches. The CloistersCollection, 63.13.1
For the Garden Party we placed on exhibition for the first time the brilliant silver-gilt
and enameled shrine announced in last year's
Annual Report.The shrine, probably made by
a goldsmith of Paris about I340-I350, is believed to have belonged in the fourteenth century to Queen Elizabeth of Hungary.
The Cloisters lent to the Tilmann Riemenschneider exhibition at the North Carolina
Museum of Art in Raleigh its fine small sculpture of Sts. Christopher, Eustace, and Erasmus, three of the fourteen Helpers in Time of
Need. The exhibition, organized by Justus
Bier, Director of the North CarolinaMuseum
and the foremost authority on Riemenschneider, was widely acclaimed by the press and
the public; Life magazine featured the Cloisters group in their review of the exhibition,
which included a double-page illustration in
color of our three Helper saints.
One of the most welcome events of I963
was the publication of the new edition of the
Cloisters handbook, which has been in preparation for several years. Since the last major
revision in I95I, many works of art of the
highest quality have been added to the collection; these are described and illustrated in the
new edition of the handbook. Among the new
entries are the Fuentiduefia apse, the Tred6s
and Berlanga frescoes, the Annunciation altarpiece by Robert Campin, the Hours of eanne
d'Evreux, the Belles Heures of lean, duke of
Berry, two thirteenth century sculptured
angels in the style of Reims, and the tapestry
called the Glorification of CharlesVIII. Large
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sections of the earlier text have been revised,
and many objects are illustrated from new
photographs especially made for this purpose.
GIFTS
RECEIVED
Mrs. William Bigelow Neergaard, in memory of
her mother and grandmother: A gift of money for
the Eastergardenin the Saint-GuilhemCloister.
AndreTressley:Corbelwith crouchingwoman
clutching her long hair, limestone, xII century,
French.
PURCHASES
Ivory: Crosswith scenesfromthe Old and New
Testaments, Evangelist symbols, and prophets,
secondhalf of the xII century, English (Bury St.
Edmunds)(The CloistersFund).
Metalwork:Chalice,silver-giltwith basse-taille
enamels,xv century, Spanish(Barcelonamarks)
(The CloistersFund).
Sculpture:Altarpiece,marble,xv century,Italian; Virgin and Child, wood, gilded and polychromed,xv century, attributedto JacobKaschauer, Austrian (Vienna); St. Mary Magdalene,
linden wood, late xv century, German;St. Margaret, wood, about 1500, attributed to Michael
Pacher, Austrian; statuette of the Virgin and
Child supported by three angels, linden wood,
gildedandpolychromed,late xv century,German
(all The CloistersFund).
Sculpture, architectural:Doorway from San
Leonardo al Frigido, marble, about I I90, Italian;
capitalrepresentingtwo pairsof intertwininglions,
limestone,earlyxnIcentury,French(St. Constant,
Charente)(bothThe CloistersFund); doublecapital with Creationscenesand basewith a grotesque
mask, marble,late xv century, French (Trie or
Larreule)(The O-F Foundation,Inc., Gift).
LOAN
ACCEPTED
Mrs. W. Murray Crane: Scenes from the Life of
Christparalleledwith scenesfrom the Old Testament, embroideredhanging,xiv century,German
(Wienhausen).
MARGARET
B.
FREEMAN,
Curator
Membership
Although the building program reduced some
of the Museum's services to the public, Membership in the Museum continued to increase
during the year, reaching a total of I9,453
Members as of June 30, I963.
In mid-November Members were invited
to view the various projects of the building
program at a Special Members' Evening in
the Museum. Over 4,000 Members came to
study the exhibition Planning for the Future,
to visit their favorite galleries and talk with
the curatorial staff, and to have light refreshments in the restaurant. There were several
showings of the film Art Heritage,in the Grace
Rainey Rogers Auditorium, which A. Hyatt
Mayor, Curator of Prints, introduced by giving a brief history of the Museum. The response to the Museum's Open House was most
enthusiastic, and it is hoped that such an
event will become a tradition.
In February, Members were invited to
three evening viewings of Leonardo da Vinci's
Mona Lisa. Over 15,000 Members came to
view the painting, the largest preview audience in the history of exhibitions at the Museum. In March, an exhibition of unusual importance, American Art from American Collections, sponsored by The Friends of the
American Wing, brought 4,271
Members to
tured on the image of man in early Renaissance sculpture; Brian A. Sparkes of the University of Southampton, England, discussed
humor in Greek art; Milton W. Brown of
Brooklyn College recreated the period of the
Armory Show; and John Jacobus from the
University of California analyzed the most
recent works of the architect Le Corbusier.
The final invitation event, the annual Garden Party at The Cloisters in June, showed
3,280 Members and their guests a new accession, a silver-gilt altarpiece of the fourteenth
century. A special concert of fifteenth century music was presented by the Wind Ensemble of the New York Pro Musica under
the direction of Noah Greenberg.
Children of Members enjoyed the many
events planned for them, especially the preview in September of the Junior Museum's
exhibition Archaeology - Exploring the Past.
More than 1,500 children came to the party
and thoroughly enjoyed meeting guest archaeologists, seeing several films on archaeology,
and exploring the exhibition. The very popular Saturday Studio Hours for Members' children aged five to twelve were once again filled
to capacity.
In addition to the events especially for our
Members, the subscription lectures, concerts,
and children's activities discussedin the Auditorium Events report continued to be enthusiastically subscribed to by Museum Members.
the opening. In connection with this exhibition Charles F. Montgomery of the H. F.
du Pont Museum, Winterthur, lectured on
Collecting and Connoisseurship in American
Arts to Members and their guests.
During the fall a wide range of subjects was
presented by eminent scholars at the afternoon invitation lectures for Members. James
G. Van Derpool, Director of the Landmarks
Preservation Commission of the City of New
SUZANNE GAUTHIER, AssistantManager
York, described the architecture of Manhattan from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century; Theodor H. Gaster, Professor
of Religion, Columbia University, discussed
folklore in the ancient world; Sterling A. Cal- MusicalInstruments
lisen, President of Parsons School of Design,
spoke on the aesthetics of archaeology; and The Department, whose exhibition galleries
Oleg Grabar of the University of Michigan were closed because of the rebuilding around
lectured on medieval Jerusalem. This inter- the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, gave
esting variety was maintained in the spring much time to preparingplans for a permanent
lectures: Lionel Casson of New York Univer- display of a large part of the Crosby Brown
sity described the ancient theaters of Greece Collection of musical instruments, which is to
and Rome; Clifford Musgrave, Director of the be exhibited in new galleries assigned to us
Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton, por- for the future.
The Curator, who received a researchgrant
trayed the history of the Royal Pavilion;
Horst W. Janson, Chairman of the Depart- from the American Council of Learned Sociment of Fine Arts, New York University, lec- eties, spent some time in European libraries
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and museums to continue research on Leonardo da Vinci as a musician. He was recently
elected a member of the Raccolta Vinciana in
Milan for his work in this field. In November,
the Curator participated in a special meeting
of the International Committee for Museums
and Collections of Musical Instruments, which
was held in Lisbon and sponsored by the Gulbenkian Foundation. The purposeof the meeting was to discuss international rules for the
cataloguing, inventory, and preservation of
musical instruments.
The Department welcomed a number of
distinguished scholars in the field of musicology and organology. We discussed with them
the possibility of cooperation between American and European museums for international
exhibitions of musical instruments and chose
a number of outstanding specimens from our
collections to illustrate new standard European publications. A large number of European, Oriental, and American instruments
were used for exemplification and illustration
in the forthcoming section dealing with musical instruments in the EnciclopediaUniversale
dell'Arte, being published simultaneously in
New York and Rome.
EMANUELWINTERNITZ,Curator
Near EasternArt
Helmet. Iranian, about xiii century B.C. Bronze with decorations
in gold on silver. Height 81s
inches.FletcherFund, 63.74
The Department received some important
and interesting gifts, among them, through
funds donated by H. Dunscombe Colt, a goldhandled bronze dagger, and, as the gift of
Elsa Rabenou, a fine armlet of hairlike gold
wire fastened to strips of gold decorated with
granular work. These two objects are said to
have come from a site in northwest Iran. An
arabesque rug with the Doria coat of arms,
given by Joseph V. McMullan, adds a historical item to the rug collection.
A gold cup decorated with deer in repousse
from Gilan, northwest Iran, lent by Mr. and
Mrs. Alastair B. Martin, and pottery lent by
Norbert Schimmel increase the importance
of a group of antiquities from this area that
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was placed on exhibition the previous year.
Two loans, a gold epaulette with repousse decoration, lent anonymously, and a part of a
plaque of similarworkmanship, lent by Joseph
H. Hirshhorn, make our collection of objects
from the Ziwiye treasurein Iran richer.
An important purchasewas a bronze helmet
decorated in the front with the figure of Ea,
god of the waters, flanked by two female deities. On the top of the helmet is a bird, and,
at the back, a hollow cone for the insertion
of a plume, both of silver covered with gold.
This helmet, along with our other objects
found in the north of Iran, will be discussed
in a forthcoming Bulletinarticle that will show
the significance of these antiquities and the
interesting light that they throw on Iranian
history of the end of the second and the beginning of the first millennium B.C.
Vaughn E. Crawfordworked at the excavation in Hasanlu, Iran, in the summer of I962,
and after his return to this country set forth
again in the spring of I963 to work with the
British School of Archaeology in Iraq. These
excavations have added to the variety and
importance of our collections.
Two large galleries of the Islamic section
were turned over to the builders; as much as
possible has been put on the balcony of the
Great Hall, and a few of the largest rugs were
hung below. This eclipse is temporary, and
the collection will eventually appear with enhanced glory. Advantage was taken of the
lack of space for display in our own Museum
to lend an excellent collection of miniature
paintings to an exhibition selected by Ernst
J. Grube at the Cini Foundation in Venice
and later at Asia House, New York.
GIFTS
RECEIVED
Ben-Zion: Figurine, earthenware, i millennium
B.C., Iranian (Amlash).
Burton Y. Berry: Spouted jar, earthenware, early
IIi millennium B.C., Anatolian (Yortan).
Charlotte
Bradford:2 nails,bronze,aboutv century B.C., Achaemenian (Iran).
Arrowhead,bronze,about
JeromeM. Eisenberg:
10oo B.C., Iranian (Amlash); 2 votive feet, earthenware, about 900 B.C., Iranian; belt buckle, bronze,
vi-vii century A.D., Sasanian (Iran).
Robert B. Forrest: 5 bronzes, about Iooo B.C.,
Iranian (Ishtahard).
Parthian (Iran); horse's head, earthenware, about
I000 B.C., from northwest Iran.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn: Lower part of a plaque,
Harry G. Friedman: Tray, metal, about xvIII
century A.D., Russian; sari, silk with gold and sil- gold, about 700 B.C., Iranian (Ziwiye).
Mr. and Mrs. Alastair B. Martin: Female statuver threads, about xvIII century A.D., probably
from Pakistan.
ette, stone, about 5400 B.C., Anatolian (Hacilar);
B.., Iranian (Gilan); plate
cup, gold, about 900oo
Virginia T. Fuller: Portrait medallion bracelet,
showing Bahram Gur and Azadeh, silver, gilded,
gold, xix century A.D., Indian.
v century A.D., Sasanian (Iran).
Fahim Kouchakji: 225 plaster impressions of cylMr. and Mrs. John de Menil: Vase on two human
inder seals from the III-i millennium B.c., Mesoand
earthenware, about 900 B.C., Iranian (AzerIranian,
legs,
Syrian.
potamian,
A. Hyatt Mayor: Battle Scene, lithograph, I895,
baijan).
Oriental Institute, The University of Chicago:
Turkish.
19 potsherds, dated sequence of Protoliterate A
Joseph V. McMullan: Arabesque rug with Doria
coat of arms, wool, xvI-xvII century A.D.,Turkish.
through Ur II, Mesopotamian (Nippur).
Edith Porada: Poletop, bronze, viii century
George C. Miles: 2 molded pots, earthenware,
B.C., Iranian (Luristan); fibula, bronze, viII cenxi-xII century A.D., Persian.
Elsa Rabenou: Bracelet, gold, about 900 B.c.,
tury B.C., Iranian (Luristan); ring, silver, about
Iranian (Gilan).
vI century B.C., Iranian.
Norbert Schimmel: Male figure, earthenware,
C. Gustav Steiner: Tapestry, silk on linen, xvIIIabout 0ooo B.C.,Iranian (Amlash); male figurine,
xix century A.D., Central Asian (Bukhara).
Mr. and Mrs. CharlesK. Wilkinson:Luster bowl,
bronze, about viII century B.C., Iranian (Luristan);
handle, silver, vi century B.C., Achaemenian (Iran).
xiII century A.D., Persian (Kashan).
Edward J. Smith, Jr.: 2 swords, bronze, about
Alfred Wolkenberg:Stone burnisher, about Iooo
1000 B.C., Iranian (Azerbaijan).
B.C., Iranian (Amlash).
Anonymous: 2 vessels, earthenware, early III
Anonymous: 6 objects, earthenware, v-III milmillennium B.C., Anatolian (Yortan); 5 implelennium B.C., Mesopotamian; spouted cup, stone,
about 3000 B.C., Mesopotamian; 2 jugs, earthen- ments, bronze and stone, III millennium B.C.,Anatolian; pair of cheekpieces, bronze, about Iooo
ware, early III millennium B.C., Anatolian (YorB.C., Iranian (Amlash); vessel in the shape of a
tan); Kilim prayer rug, I774 A.D., Turkish (Ladik).
horse, earthenware, about 900 B.C., Iranian (Amlash); spouted pitcher, painted earthenware, 900
PURCHASES
B.C., Iranian (Luristan); pin ending in a stag's
III millennium B.C.: Cylinder seal, lapis lazuli,
head, bronze, from the Caucasus, 900 B.c.; fibula,
bronze, viII century B.C., Phrygian (Anatolia);
B.C., Early Dynastic III, Mesopotamian;
2500-2340
B.C., Akkadian epaulette, gold, vnI century B.C.,Iranian (Ziwiye).
cylinder seal, stone, 2340-2I80
(Mesopotamia) (both Rogers Fund).
II millennium B.C.: Helmet, bronze, decorated
EXCAVATION
in gold on silver, about xmIIcentury B.c., Iranian
From Nimrud, Iraq, in conjunction with the
(Fletcher Fund).
British School of Archaeology in Iraq: I I ivories
I millennium B.c.: 3 vessels, earthenware, about
and i additional objects of stone, shell, clay, and
Iooo B.C., Iranian (Amlash) (Rogers Fund); sword,
glass, all viII century B.C.
bronze, about 900 B.C., Iranian (Dailaman) (H.
Dunscombe Colt Gift); cup, bronze, vIII-vII cenCHARLESK. WILKINSON, Curator
tury B.C., Iranian (Luristan) (Rogers Fund).
ix-xix centuries A.D.: 14 pages of calligraphy
in Persian and Arabic, ix-xix centuries A.D.; bowl,
glazed earthenware, x century A.D., East Persian;
pitcher, glass, x century A.D., Islamic; bowl, ceramic, x century A.D., Persian; bowl, ceramic, xii
century A.D., Egyptian (Fostat); bowl, ceramic, The Print
Department's exhibitions serve to
xmII century A.D., Persian (Kashan) (all Rogers
mark the development of the collection and
Fund).
to furnish a background for other events in
the Museum. The growth of the photograph
ACCEPTED
LOANS
collection suggested an exhibition of Paris unBen-Zion: Ax, bronze, and 2 vases, earthenware,
der the Second Empire, which filled the lobby
I millennium B.C., Iranian (Amlash); double man
and lion head, iron, about 700 B.C., Iranian (Luris- of the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium from
tan); lion, gold, ii century B.c.-II century A.D., September into the winter. Prints of various
Millie Bruhl Fredrick (bequest): Carpet, wool,
xvIII century A.D., Persian.
Prints
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RembrandtHarmensz.van Ryn
(1606-1669),
Dutch. Landscape
with a Man Sketching,about 1645.
Etching.5? x 84 inches. Gift of
WalterC. Baker, 62.664.1
Leonard Baskin: Leonard Baskin, American, 7
designs for postage stamps, I962.
PierreBellocq: Pierre Bellocq, American, drawing for the cartoon Big Job, 1962.
Paul Bird, Jr. (one-third interest): A collection of
prints of ballooning, xvIII and xix centuries.
Adele S. Colgate (bequest): Currier & Ives,
American, about 550 lithographs, hand-colored,
xix century.
Joseph Domjan: Joseph Domjan, American, 4
woodcuts, 1962.
Raphael Esmerian: 35 designs for furnishings for
the palace of Duke Albrecht of Sachsen-Teschen,
pencil and water color, 1780-I792, French and
Austrian.
Antonio Frasconi: Antonio Frasconi, American,
8 designs for postage stamps, I962.
Harry G. Friedman: A group of prints, including
35 by Hans Sebald Beham, German, xvi century.
Fritz Glarner: Fritz Glarner, American, 2 designs for postage stamps, 1962.
Lucien Goldschmidt:J. M. van der Ketten: Apelles Symbolicus, Amsterdam, 1699; Jean Dolivar:
Livre de Cartouches,Paris, xvii century.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Hahn: Francis Wheatley,
English, 13 Cries of London, stipple engravings,
I793-I797.
Sinclair Hamilton: Isaac Eddy, American, The
Grecian Daughter, woodcut, 1790-i800; Bessie
Grant's Treasure, Boston, 1864, illustrated by
Winslow Homer, American.
BarbaraIvins: A group of prints, including about
125 woodcuts and drawings for prints by Florence
Wyman Ivins, American, xx century.
Rockwell Kent: Rockwell Kent, American, 2
drawings for postage stamps, xx century.
WarrenKing: Warren King, American, drawing
A. HYATT MAYOR, Curator
for a cartoon of Rembrandt's Aristotle, 1962.
Lincoln Kirstein: I Io illustrated trade catalogues
and early books on interior decoration, xix cenRECEIVED
GIFTS
tury, mostly American; 23 children's books, 1962ShermanAckerman:FlorencioMolinaCampos, 1963, Russian.
Charles E. Martin: Charles E. Martin, AmeriArgentine, 149 prints of Gaucho subjects, xx
can, drawing for a New Yorkercover, 1955.
century.
Bruno and Sadie Adriani: Max Liebermann,
N. Richard Miller: Hans Hartung, American, 5
color etchings, xix century.
German, Aus dem Judenviertel, etching, 1908.
Grace A. Albee, in memory of her husband, Percy
Mrs. Henry L. Moses: Mrs. Trollope: Domestic
F. Albee:PercyF. andGraceA. Albee,American, Manners of the Americans, London, 1832.
a collectionof printsand drawingsfor prints,xx
John J. A. Murphy: John J. A. Murphy, American, about I30 woodcuts and etchings, xx century.
century.
Ernst Anspach: Martin Luther: Ain Betbuchlin,
Gabor Peterdi: Gabor Peterdi, American, 8 deWittenberg, 1523.
signs for postage stamps, I962.
Emil Antonucci: Emil Antonucci, American, 2
Garrett Price: Garrett Price, American, design
for a New Yorker cover, drawing, 1950.
designs for postage stamps, 1962.
WalterC. Baker:Rembrandt,Dutch, Old Man
Duchesse de Richelieu: The Four Temperaments,
with a Large Beard, 1630, and Landscape with a lithographs, xix century, German.
Man Sketching, about 1645, both etchings; Lucas
Walter Schatzki: Images of saints, uncut proof
of Leyden, Dutch, 2 medallions, engravings, xvi
engraving, about I700, German.
Janos Scholz: The Vernicle, unfinished engravcentury; Lucas Cranach,German, Ecce Homo,
woodcut, xvi century.
ing completed in black chalk, possibly xvi cen-
kinds were grouped around photographs that
Adolphe Braun took under the reign of Napoleon III and Eugenie during the heaviest luxuriance of crinolines and court balls. From
October through Januarythe Special Exhibition galleries displayed the original drawings
of many of the cartoons that appearedall over
the world after the Museum purchased Rembrandt'spainting of Aristotle with the Bust of
Homer. This series of caricatures was made
into an exhibition called The Stone Guest by
adding other prints and paintings in which
statues affect people.
In February this show gave way to one
called The Tastes and Curiositiesof a Curator,
to give an idea of the amusement and passion
that the first Curator of Prints, William M.
Ivins, Jr., who died in 1961, had felt as he
bought things for his own personal collection.
The exhibition included quotations from his
writings that revealed his pioneer taste and
his force of intellect. June brought the still
current exhibition of Man in the Air, organized around a gift of ballooning prints from
Paul Bird, Jr. These early prints of balloons
and airplanes convey the wonder of drifting
with the wind in silence, and the exhilaration
of propelling oneself at will through the air.
A complete list of donors to the Print Department appears on page 88.
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tury, possibly Milanese; Album du Pavillon Persan.
Brussels, 1913, in presentation binding; Fool of
Bells, pen drawing for a playing card, German,
'545.
Alec Ulmann: Montaut and Gamy, French, I
stencils of motoring and aviation, 1905-1914.
Dorothy Warren: Dorothy Warren. American,
14 photographs of Prout's Neck, etc., xx century.
Herman A. Webster(one-third interest): The collection of Herman A. Webster, American, over
500 etchings, xx century.
Alice F. Williams: Caroline Farley, American,
about IIo bookplates, engravings, about I9oo.
Mrs. Orme Wilson: Sir David Wilkie: Sketchesin
Turkey, London, 1843; Robert Nanteuil, French,
Ferdinand de Neufville and Marquis de Croissy,
engravings, xvii century; a group of reproductive
prints, about 1675-1870. European.
D. Lorraine Yerkes:A collection of wallpapers,
xix century, mostly French.
PURCHASES
xv century: Martin Schongauer, German, The
Lady with a Swan Shield, engraving (Henry Walters Fund by exchange); Florentine engraving of
the Inferno (the upright plate) about 1460-I470;
Bartolommeo de Comazzo: Rulesfor the monastery
of San Marco, Florence, 1485 or later; Albrecht
Diirer, German, 42 woodcuts for a Salus Animae,
about I493; Nitzschewitz: Psalter, Zinna, I4941495; a large collection of woodcut book illustrations, about I475-151o, French, German, and Italian (all The Elisha Whittelsey Fund).
xvi century: Nicoletto da Modena, Italian, St.
Christopher, engraving (Dick Fund); Lucas of
Leyden, Dutch, Baptism of Christ, engraving,
about 15 o0; Libro delle Battaglie del Danese, Milan,
I513; Hans Burgkmair,German,The Blue King
(Frangois I) plots against the White King (Maximilian), proof impression of woodcut, 1514-1516;
St. George, woodcut book cover, Venice, I5I01520; Homer: Les Dix PremiersLivres de l'Iliade,
Paris, 1545; Jean Chartier, French, Holy Family,
1557 (all The Elisha Whittelsey Fund).
xvii-xvinI centuries: Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch,
red chalk drawing for Jacob Matham's engraving
of Prudence; Jean Lepautre, French, pen drawing
for his etching of Aeneas' Farewell to Dido; Bernard Toro, French, design for a title page, pen and
wash (all Anne and Carl Stern Gift); Jean Berain,
French, two drawings for opera costumes; de Bellebat: Relation du Voyage de Mello de Castro, Paris,
I709 (both The Elisha Whittelsey Fund); Martin
Engelbrecht, German, 5 anthropomorphic alphabets, etchings (Mrs. John D. Gordan Gift, in
memory of William M. Ivins, Jr.).
xix-xx centuries: Charles Percier, French, album of sketches for furniture and decoration; Jean
Auguste Dominique Ingres, French, Stratonice,
lithograph; Honore Daumier, French, about 250
lithographs; Gustave Dore, French, India paper
proofs of wood engravings for Don Quixote, I863;
Camille Pissarro, French, The Goose Girl and A
Field at Eragny, etchings (all The Elisha Whittelsey Fund); Julia Margaret Cameron, British, Alice
Liddell, photograph; Sherril V. Schell, American, 14 photographs of noted artists and writers
(both David H. McAlpin Fund); Pierre Bonnard,
French, trial proof for the back cover of Le Petit
Solfege Illustre, lithograph (Anne and Carl Stern
Gift); 7 color prints by contemporary British
artists; 4 prints by Latin-American artists; Antonio Frasconi, American, woodcuts for Aesop's
fables (all John B. Turner Fund).
Publications
After being out of print for more than a year,
The Cloisters, the comprehensive guide by
James J. Rorimer, is once more available to
the public. The third edition, revised in collaboration with Margaret B. Freeman, Curator of The Cloisters, and the staff of The
Cloisters and the Department of Medieval
Art, is the Museum's most important publication this year. This book has been a best
seller since its first publication in I938, and
has gone through two editions and several recopies.
printings totaling more than 200,000
The revised edition, the first in a dozen years,
covers many important and popular works
not previously included. The book has been
redesigned, and for the first time in many
years is available in a clothbound edition as
well as in paperback.
A fully illustrated catalogue, American Art
from American Collections, by James Biddle,
Curator of the American Wing, was published
in connection with the exhibition sponsored
by The Friends of the American Wing. It was
available in no less than three editions, bound
in paper, cloth, and leather; the last of these,
a limited edition, was completely subscribed
before publication, thanks to our loyal Members, and the other two were all but sold out
by the exhibition's end. Also very popular
was another publication issued in connection
with an exhibition: the illustrated essay by
Theodore Rousseau, Curator of European
Paintings, concerning the Mona Lisa, of which
over Ioo,ooo copies were sold.
A contribution was made to an important
8i
Bernard Toro (1672-173
),
French.Designfor a title page.
Pen and wash. 17 x 94 inches.
Purchase,Anne and Carl Stern
Gift, 62.590
internationalseries,the CorpusVasorumAntiquorum,through the publicationof a fascicule by Dietrich von Bothmer, Curatorof
Greek and Roman Art, cataloguingfifty-six
black-figuredamphoraein the Museum'scollection of Greek vases.The CorpusVasorum
is, as the nameimplies,the stanAntiquorum
dardpublicationof ancientvases;the format
-a bound descriptive text combined with
loose individual plates-makes possible the
direct comparisonof worksin collectionsall
over the world.
Among the other publicationsof the year
were the Bulletin,a numberof concertprogramsand pamphlets(includinga handsome
new descriptivebrochurefor The Cloisters),
and two schoolsets: TheByzantineWorld,by
Emma N. Papert, and GreekMythology,by
RobertaPaine.Next year we hope to issuea
fairly wide variety of publications.Among
themwill be cataloguesof two importantprivate collections:the sixth and final volume
Colof the Catalogueof the Irwin Untermyer
lection,by Yvonne Hackenbroch,largelydevoted to Englishsilver,and the firstvolume
of the catalogueof the CharlesB. Wrightsman
collection of French decorativearts of the
eighteenthcentury,by FrancisWatson,Keeper of the WallaceCollection.We plan also to
bringout two moresectionsof the "Guideto
the Collections,"Printsand Western
European
Arts;a large,illustratedbookreproducingour
finest European drawings;a gift book of
Aesop'sfables,illustratedwith printsfromthe
fifteenthcentury to the present;and a complete catalogueof our collectionof American
sculpture.The publicationof this catalogue,
plustwo cataloguesof our Americanpaintings
to be issuedin the future,hasbeenmadepossible by a grant,receivedthis year, from the
Ford Foundation.
acquisitionsby the PrintDepartment,the Library,and the CostumeInstitute);3,627 objects were catalogued.Additionsand changes
made to the recordsfor objectsalreadycatalogued numbered 2,319, reflecting the new
publications and scholarship based on the
Museum's works of art. Eleven hundred and
fifty-eight entries were made for the Subject
Index of Western Art. Twenty-eight objects
were de-accessioned. Fourteen hundred and
seventy-eight objects were deposited by 386
owners as possible gifts, loans, or purchases, at
the request of the curators. Five hundred and
eighty-seven were returned to 203 owners.
The Museum borrowed 3,889 objects. These
included 3,320 for exhibition with the Museum's own collections, and were received from
64 lenders. Five hundred and sixty-nine objects were borrowedfrom 77 owners for special
exhibitions. Sixty-one of these objects were
for the exhibition Archaeology -Exploring
the Past, in the JuniorMuseum. Nine hundred
and eighteen objects from the Museum's collections were crated or packed for shipment
or prepared for delivery by truck as loans to
I o other institutions.
IRMAB. WILKINSON,
Registrarand Supervisorof the Catalogue
Arts
WesternEuropean
The event of the year for this Department
was the exhibition of the Mona Lisa in the
Medieval Sculpture Hall, which forced us to
modify drastically the displays in our surrounding galleries in order to accommodate
the vast throngs that came to see Leonardo's
GRAY WILLIAMS, JR., Editor
painting. The rooms leading to the Park entrance, for example, were entirely emptied
of their contents. Following Mona Lisa's departure, various improvements in arrangement were made during the reinstallation.
Registrarand Catalogue
This was another year of numerous acquiThirteenhundredandseventy-sixnewobjects sitions by gift and purchase. Among the memwereaccessionedasadditionsto the Museum's orable gifts were the service of rare black
collections(not includingtensof thousandsof Sevres porcelain, from Lewis Einstein, a mas82
terfully modeled Goat with Suckling Kid
in white Meissen porcelain, from Mrs. Jean
Mauze; and a table top -a richly colorful mosaic of raremarbles- the product of the grandducal Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence,
from Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Trecker. Bernard Baruch and Irwin Untermyer have again
given fine objects of English furniture, and
welcome examples of French furniture have
come from the Mary Ann Payne Foundation.
The Museum has also received as the bequest
of Aimee L. May a fascinating collection of
more than 250 miniature objects executed in
silver.
Our principal purchasesthis year have been
sculpture. A fine bronze statuette of the Risen
Christ by Giovanni Bologna and Antonio Susini, which may be dated I596, was the central
figure in a seriesof eleven pieces made to decorate the ciborium of the high altar of the Certosa at Galluzzo outside Florence. It now appropriately rejoins two of these figures- Sts.
John and Matthew-that the Museum purchased in 1957. Other purchaseswere a superb
life-size polychrome wood sculpture of John
the Baptist, by the great seventeenth century
Spanish master Juan Martinez Montafins,and
two dramatic life-size painted and gilded wood
figures of Sts. Matthew and Mark, by, or in
the style of, the late seventeenth century Austrian master Meinrad Guggenbichler. The
Museum was also able to acquire at auction in
London a remarkableEnglish silver-gilt toilet
service from the reign of Charles II. It consists of nineteen pieces, each engraved with
sprightly scenes in the then novel chinoiserie
style.
Important loans have come from Mr. and
Mrs. Charles B. Wrightsman, R. Thornton
Wilson-who added three examples to the
notable group of ceramics already donated or
lent by him-and Renee Carhart Amory.
The special loan exhibition of the art of
Carl Faberge, which opened two years ago,
continues to attract an admiring public. Several objects were added to this display by the
anonymous lender of the collection during the
course of the past year.
Work on preparing a guide for this department has now been completed. Edith A.
Standen has written the text, and it is expected to appearduring the courseof the year.
Plans for the installation of the Velez Blanco
patio, bequeathed by George Blumenthal,
have been a major preoccupation of the Department. At the same time plans were made
for a gallery adjoining the patio, which will
be devoted to Spanish art, and for a series of
galleries for the arts of the Italian Renaissance
to be located in the area that will become vacant when the Photograph and Slide Library
moves to its new quarters.
GIFTS
RECEIVED
BernardM. Baruch,in memoryof his wife,Annie
GrifenBaruch(subjectto a life estatein thedonor):
I5 pieces of English furniture:pair of hanging
niches,carvedand gildedwood, with crestsin the
formof pagodaroofs,xvIII century;cabinet,mahoganywith a serpentinefront and squarefluted
legs, about I760; tripodstand,mahogany,the top
set with a heptagonalOrientalsoapstone,about
I765; quarter-roundcorner cabinet, mahogany
and satinwood, about I785-1795; Carlton House
desk,inlaidsatinwood,about I795; lady'swriting
table, painted satinwood,with an oval top and
valancedfriezefitted with a writingdrawer,about
I795;set of 7 Adamarmchairs,paintedandgilded
wood, with shapedseat railsand coveredin flowered damask,about 1796; drop-leaftable, inlaid
satinwood,with an oval top and squaretapered
legs, about I800.
CharlesD. Dickey:Brocadedsilk piece, xvmII
century, Spanish.
LewisEinstein:2 white silk panels,embroidered
with gold andsilverthreads,xvIII century,Spanish; valance,embroideredwhite ribbedsilk, xvmII
century, Italian;45 piecesof porcelain,with chinoiserie decorationin gold and platinum on a
blackground,partlyfrom the reignof LouisXVI
(1774- 793), partlyfrom the First Empire (I8031814), French (Sevres); large group of tassels,
fringes,ribbons,galloons,and metal lace, xviiixix century, European,for installation.
BarbaraLowe Fallass(undividedone-halfinter-
est): Music and Architecture, 2 terracotta reliefs,
second half of the xvIII century, by Clodion
(Claude Michel), French.
Thomas M. Folds: Dancer looking at the sole
of her right foot, cast stone, reproduction of a
bronze statuette in the series modeled by Edgar
Hilaire Germain Degas, French (1834-I917), for
educational use by classes in art appreciation for
the blind.
Clarence C. Franklin: Vadasa I, bronze relief
sculpture, I960, by Karl-Heinz Droste, German.
CharlesR. Gracieand Sons,Inc. (undividedone83
Juan Martinez Montane's(15681649), Spanish (Seville). St. John
the Baptist,first half of the xvII
century. Wood, polychromed.
Height 6I inches. Purchase,Joseph
Pulitzer Bequest, 63.40
seventhinterest): 125 running feet of painted wallpaper, from two rooms of the Indian Suite at Bowood, Wiltshire, depicting flowering plants and
birds above a balustrade, alternating with panels
of bamboo trellis work, on a green ground, midxvIII century, Chinese (made for the English
market).
Rodman H. Heeren: Linen panel, embroidered
with silk and metal thread, with figural and floral
motifs, second half of the xvIII century, Italian;
satin panel, polychromed and brocaded in a floral
pattern, first half of the xvIIi century, Italian.
Mrs. FrederickStreetHoppin: Piece of silk satin,
about I850, French or English.
Mrs. John ChambersHughes: 15 piece wine service, glass, encrusted with gold, xix century,
French.
W. Truslow Hyde, Jr.: Parure, carved coral, consisting of bracelet, brooch with pendant, and earrings, in contemporary leather case, about 1864,
Italian (Naples).
Helen E. lonides: 21 pieces of Bebilla lace, xix
century, Greek.
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Krimsley: Birdcage on
stand, mahogany and brass, about i750, English.
Evelyn T. Lowman: Cushion cover, wool with
beads, mid-xix century, English.
Mrs. Clarence Mackay: Flounce, point de gaze
lace, late xix century, Belgian (Brussels).
Mrs. Jean Mauze: Goat and Suckling Kid, porcelain group, about 1732, modeled by J. J. Kaendler, German (Meissen); (subject to a life estate in
the donor): pair of mounts for porcelain birds given
by Mrs. Mauze in 1959, gilt bronze, xviii century,
French.
Aimee L. May (bequest) (Joseph M. and Aime'e
Loeb May Collection): 266 pieces of miniature
silver, xvii-xix centuries, English, Scottish, Irish,
French, and Dutch.
Stanley Mortimer: 2 stained-glass panels: The
Crucifixion and Christ before Annas, from a series
made for the cloister of the Cistercian convent at
Rathausen, Switzerland, the first, latexvI century,
the second, dated I603, painted by Franz Fallenter, Swiss.
Mary Ann Payne Foundation, Inc.: Armchair,
walnut, covered in French tapestry of the period
of Louis XV, xvIII century, French (subject to a
life interest in Mrs. Ralph K. Robertson); lady's
dressing table, oak, with marquetry of tulipwood,
purplewood, kingwood, and other woods, about
1765, French; bergere, carved and painted beechwood, about 1785, French.
Rosenberg& Stiebel, Inc.: Toilet set, carved walnut, consisting of mirror, rectangular box, pair of
octagonal boxes, cylindrical box, and pair of candlesticks, early xvIII century, Lorrainese (Nancy).
Mrs. Janos Scholz (Helen Marshall Scholz),from
the collection of her late husband, Ernest Schelling:
Brocaded silk piece, xviii century, French; pair
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of curtains with matching valance, painted silk,
xvIIi century, French; scarf, embroidered net,
about 910o, French.
Mrs. Joseph M. Schulte: Set of io side chairs and
2 armchairs, covered in blue and green tapestry,
the oak frames of a later date than the tapestry,
xvIII-xix century, Flemish.
Mrs. Harold D. Shattuck (subject to a life estate
in the donor): 27 pieces of porcelain, 1735-i800,
Chinese (made for the European market).
LesterC. Stone: Basin, faience, with polychromed
decoration, about 1745, made by the LaugierOlerys factory, French (Moustiers).
KatherineTownshend:Creamer, bowl, and pitcher, porcelain, about 1900, Irish (Belleek).
Mr. and Mrs. FrancisJ. Trecker:Table top, inlaid marble with Florentine mosaic work of ancient marbles and semiprecious stones, mid-xvii
century, made in the grand-ducal Opificio delle
Pietre Dure at the Uffizi, Italian (Florence).
Irwin Untermyer:Long-case clock, the case veneered with walnut inlaid with marquetry, about
i685, made by Jeremiah Johnson, English (London); hanging, embroidered in silk and wool, with
views of fountains at Versailles and scenes from
classical mythology, last quarter of the xvII century, French; 6 embroidered chair seats, wool and
silk tent stitch on canvas, early xviii century,
English.
Mrs. Ernest G. Victor: Pair of candlestands, mahogany, decorated with carved acanthus leaves,
about I735, English.
Ruth and Gordon Washburn: 3 embroidered insertions, red silk on linen, xvi century, Italian;
purse, beadwork of the type known as sable, xvIII
century, French.
Helen W. Wilkins, in memory of her husband,
Frederic Fraley Wilkins: 2 candlesticks (palmatorias), silver, xviii century, Spanish.
R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson: Dish, faience, with turquoise blue
ground and polychrome floral decoration, end of
the xvii century, Dutch (Delft).
Natalie Emilie Winslow, in memoryof her mother,
Theodora Havemeyer Winslow: Tablecloth, linen,
embroidered with the De Loosey crest and figures
in medallions and edged with fillet lace, xix century, French.
PURCHASES
Ceramics: Holy-water font, with the arms of
the Avogadro family, majolica, about 1485-1500,
Italian (probably Faenza) (Rogers Fund); 5 pieces
of Chinese porcelain: plate, with underglaze decoration in blue, late xviI-early xvIII century, possibly made for the Portuguese market; pair of plates,
each decorated with a basket of flowers painted in
gold and black, after engravings by J. B. Monnoyer, the backs bearing arms which may be those
of the last Laird of Frenchland, about I740-1750,
probably made for the Scottish market; pair of
plates from a dinner service, each decorated with
two Scottish Highland soldiers, mid-xvmi century, made for the Scottish market (all Winfield
Foundation Gift); Moses and the Tablets of the
Law, majolica plaque, about I720, attributed to
Bartolomeo Terchi, Italian (San Quirico) (Rogers
Fund).
Metalwork: Chess and tric-trac board, coppergilt, walnut, ivory, mother-of-pearl, serpentine,
and rosso antico marble, with the monogram of
Don Diego Lopez Pacheco, Third Duke of Escalona and Knight of the Order of the Golden
Fleece, about I520-I550, Spanish (Castile) (Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Fund); 19 piece toilet service,
silver-gilt, with engraved chinoiserie decoration,
consisting of a mirror, casket, pair of boxes, pair
of small boxes, pair of candlesticks, pair of twohandled shallow bowls and covers, pair of salvers,
pair of scent bottles, pin cushion, snuffers-tray and
snuffers, and a pair of small pomade pots, I6831684, the majority bearing the maker's mark
w. F., English (London) (Fletcher Fund).
Sculpture: The Risen Christ, bronze, from a
series of statuettes made for the tabernacle of the
main altar of the Certosa at Galluzzo outside of
Florence, 1596, designed by Giovanni Bologna
and cast by Antonio Susini, Italian (Florence)
(Edith Perry Chapman Fund); St. John the Baptist, polychromed wood, first half of the xvII century, by Juan Martinez Montafies, Spanish (Seville) (Joseph Pulitzer Bequest); St. Matthew and
St. Mark, carved, painted, and gilded wood, from
an altarpiece, late xvii century, by, or in the style
of, Meinrad Guggenbichler, Austrian (Fletcher
Fund).
Textiles: Wool panel, with tapestry border on
two sides, xnI-xiv century, Peruvian (Pre-Inca,
Coastal Region, Chancay Culture); moire silk
panel, embroidered with colored silks in a design
of fantastic flowers and foliage, xvIII century,
French; silk panel, with polychrome chinoiserie
design, xvIII century, French; white silk piece,
brocaded in colored silk and gold thread in a floral
design, xvIII century, English (Spitalfields); white
silk piece, brocaded in a pattern of branches and
foliage after a design by Anna Maria Garthwaite
in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1748, English
(Spitalfields); cotton piece, with copperplate print,
Homage to George III, about 1780, English (Manchester); cotton piece, with copperplate print representing the Four Seasons, about 1785, English;
cotton piece, block-printed, with design of floral
stripes, about I795, English; printed cotton piece,
with scenes from Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the
Lake, about 1820, French; cotton piece, engraved
roller print, with design of Gothic windows, about
1830, English; cotton piece, roller-printed, with
design of pheasants and flowers, about I830, English; cotton piece, roller-printed, with design of
tree and birds, about i830, English (all Rogers
Fund).
LOANS
ACCEPTED
Renee Carhart Amory: Diana and Actaeon, silk
and wool tapestry, late xvii century, woven at the
Gobelins manufactory in the atelier of I. Ians,
French (Paris).
Mrs. Darwin Morse: Cotton piece, with copperplate print, La Route de Poissy, about 1820,
French (Nantes); cotton piece, with copperplate
print, with design after Raphael's Madonna of the
Fish and the Holy Family under the Oak, about
I830, French.
E. M. Newlin: Caster, silver, 172I, by Edward
Turner, English (London); teapot, silver, 1730,
by William Shaw and William Prist, English
(London).
R. Thornton Wilson: Teapot and hot-water jug,
porcelain, each decorated with polychrome figures
of two musicians upon a black background, xvIII
century, Chinese (made for the European market).
Mr. and Mrs. CharlesB. Wrightsman:
Picture
frame, carved and gilded beechwood, about I740,
French; pair of corner shelves, oak marquetried
with tulipwood and end-cut woods, about I760,
signed by Bernard Van Risenburgh, French; upright secretary, oak with marquetry of tulipwood,
kingwood, and holly, made for the Cabinet Interieur of Louis XVI at the Palais de Compiegne,
1786-1787, signed by Guillaume Beneman, French.
Anonymous: 4 objects of virtu, consisting of paper weight, hand seal, pendant, and pigeon, gold,
enamel, and precious and semiprecious stones, late
xix-early xx century, by the House of Carl Faberge, Russian (Moscow and St. Petersburg).
JOHN GOLDSMITH PHILLIPS, Curator
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Giovanni Bologna (1529-1608)
and Antonio Susini (d. 1624),
Italian (Florence). The Risen
Christ,1596. Bronze. Height iiz151
inches. Edith Perry Chapman
Fund. 63.39