New-York tribune., 1903-05-01
MUSEUM REOPENS TO-DAY.
Include Paintings, Jap
anese Armor and Mang Gifts.

The Metropolitan Museum OF Arts which has
been closed for the annual spring housecleaning.
win be reopened to the public at 10 a. to-day
Since the opening OF the east wing last DeceTn-
ber many alterations have been made by General
di Cesnoa. Three picture galleries have been re-
decorated and of the collections have been
transferred make room for others Some Of the
Cyprus antiquities of the Di CesnOla collection.
stored for time for lack of room. now IN the
northeast aIcove OF the south wing. and the col
lection has been historically arranged Many
Egyptian antiquities have been added to the ex-
hbits 4 the north corridor
Among the acquisitions in the picture galleries
The Valley Of VaUcluse." BY Thomas Cole.
presented by William E. Dodge; L'Enlevement de
Rebecca. by DelacrOix. from the LyaH sale;
Boats Shore" by Daubigny, and landscape
by Rousseau. bought at the Mrs 5. D. Warren
sale. and The Protest of Luther" by Linden
schrnit. the younger, given by W. z Dodge Three
pictures were bought with money from the jacob
8 Rogers fund. These are Marie Marguerite
Lambert de Thorisny." portrait by LaFsilierre
who died IN 1875; portrait OF the Emperor Joseph
II of Austria brother OF Marie Antoinette. painted
by Drouais in 177O and portrait Of Princess de
Conte as DIANA" formerly owned BY Queen Marie
aee0ine{rs de6 IN Iss ana painted 0y Jean
Autumn by D. ". Tryon Is lent by the artist.
and VerDeeekhoyen. Landscape and Cattle" is
lent by Mrs A E ShOenberSeT.
one of the notable additions IS the collection OF
professor OF philosophy in Columbia University
ing. There nineteen complete armor suits
representing the principal PERIODS IN japanese us
tory. from loo 10 about 1co. Ihey snow the SUITS
by the commGnder-in-ehisf down 10 those
worn by soldiers The art extinct dEIEs IN Isoo,
when the Shcgun depcSsd as temporary en-
perOr and the Mikado into Iull control
Among the suits is that OF the Pflnce OF Sehal
d suit belonging to the Prince OF ATfma, dated
1850, lent by Louis 3. McCagg, considered one OF
the best examples OF etched Tork 0FSrIald Win
gold that has been brought out OF japan.
the TckUgawa period. le06-1ssS, worn only BY a
conlnauder-in-chief. and Gated l4O4- Anotnsf IS
steel and black laced with white deer hlde. Inc
war harness OF Japanese officer at the time OF
the Mongol invasion IN 12S2 is oelieyea 20 oe the
only complete Of this period that has been
preserved. It the work OF MioChtU Mupe-
chicka OF the fifth generation OF the great arnor-
ers of old japan. dating from lI50 10 lSD1 among
the specimens from the FCjluara perlog da[lns otS
to 1850 Is armor in boiled leather gtlded. There
copper scales taken our of graves. running
back 10 the ninth century helmet ana mask
which belonged To Ganeral Takeda Shingen. date
1870, and orce practically ruler or the empire
represents the head Of q gcd Of the mountain
There also pieces Of European armoF traded 10
japanese IN 100 through Nagasakt. the only open
port Of that time. The collection occupies nearly
thirty cases.
Among other additions to the museum IS the col
lection Of seventy sundials given by the family
of Stephen B. Tucker. Thsy date from the six
tserth century. Mrs. Pierpont Morgan gives a
mahogany case; D. Nolan a bow mandolin; Ars
Arthur Corbin japanese plaque; Mrs. Robert De
Forest. bronze mask OF Napoleon l. and the ex-
ecutOrs OF the estate Of Henry G. MRrduand, q
mantelpiece, Italian. Of the sixteenth century.
Terra Gotta from Asia Minor, Greco-Ho-nan n
statuettes, bronzes and glass vases, from Saida
and Hatfa, and gold ornaments froTn 1arsus are
A miniature OF the Princess Augusta Sophia IS
lent by J. d. Larkin, and Greek church trfptych-
oval plaque, by V. E Macy