New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-28
FATE Of MORGAN ART
TREASURES IN BALANCE
Much Speculation as to Final
Disposition of Loan Co|IeC-
ton in Museum.
EIGHTY PAINTINGS IN LOT
Represent All Schools and Are
Among Best Known Exhibits
at the Metropolitan-Son
May Be Trustee.

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While speculation regarding the final
| disposition Of the art treasures of J. p
Morgan In the Metropolitan Museum OF
Art has centred mostly around the loan
! collection of thirty paintings which
were brought here from London last
year. it is not generally known that
there are nearly fifty other paintings
scattered about the museum which were
loaned by the financier at different
intervals since 1908.
The loan collection as the thirty
! pictures on exhibition in the gallery
| Of special exhibitions are styled, has
been on view since January. In ALL
there are about eighty Morgan pictures
In the Metropolitan.
It was said yesterday by person in
a position to know that Mr.. Morgan
regarded some OF the former loans
among the gems of his entire collec-
ton. Several of them were placed in
the exhibition OF Dutch masters in Sep
the Hudson Fulton Celebration Com
mission. Mr.. Morgan left most of these
paintings in the museum.
Rembrandt's THE Young Painter"
They include Rembrandts The
Young Painter" and two portraits by
Frans Halls. Herr Bodolphe and wife.
The Lady Writing" by Vermeer. was
another of the highly priced Morgan
pictures in the exhibition and loaned
to the museum afterward. Some are
Of greater value than a number OF his
pictures brought here from London.
Among the forty-five or more pict-
ures scattered about the museum gal
leries loaned by Mr.. Morgan between
1905 and 1912 are three Rembrandts.
three of Frans Hals's. a Perugino. 4
landscape by Hobbema and a Fra An
gelico.
J. +. Morgan. the son Of the financier,
who has inherited the Morgan art
treasures. has not visited the museum
since the death Of his father it was
asserted yesterday. Practically all the
treasures that came here from South
Kensington. except the pictures are
still unpacked.
The gifts Of paintings from Mr.. Nor
gan were few by comparison with the
extensive loans he made. They rep
resent almos, all schools Of painting
and are among the best known exhibits
in the museum. as well as among the
most valua BILE. Several paintings
which were loaned temporarily were
withdrawn. but the greater part of
those that came 10 the museum re-
manned there.
The year 1909 marked the largest
loan OF the thirty pictures in 1912 is
not considered.
In 1909 these pictures became loans:
The Circumcision by vincenzo Ca
Madonna and Child" school by Botti-
CELL.
Portrait of Thomas a Beckett by Jan
van Eyck.
Portrait Of Erasmus by Hans Hol
bein.
Duff Ogiyie portrait Of Mary Stuart
aud her infant son, James | tafterward
James Vi.
4 triptych. by Henri Bles: THE Last
supper" "MelchIzedek Giving Bread and
Wine to Abraham on His Return from
the Wars" and Failing of the Mamma in
Madonna and Child" Bruges. Master
of the Legend of St Ursula (so-called
from his series of pictures In the cloister
Of the Black Sisters at bruges).
A Rubens in Lot.
"St Theresa Praying for the Souls In
Purgatory." by Peter Paul Rubens.
Girl Making a Garland" by Wolfgang
Traut.
Landscape with figures and cattle. by
Children Playing Cards" by Dirk Halls.
Girls with Cat" by Dirk Halls.
"Michiel de Wael'' 90. by Frans Halls
W." PORTRAIT Of a Lady" by Frans Halls.
THE Water MIL" BY Meindert Hob
bema. Also Wooded Landscape"
"A Visit to the Nursery by Gabriel
LADY Writing" by vermeer.
Portrait OF Himself" by Rembrandt.
"Nicoiaes Ruts.' by Rembrandt
"A Young Painter: by Rembrandt.
Cottage Under Trees" by Jacob van
"a Woman at washtub: a Child In a
| COURTYARD" by Pieter de Iiooch.
These paintings were loaned in 1911:
Legend Of st. Nicholas 1.-TWO paint
inpsJ, by Garofalo.
"The Nativity OF thu Lord" by jacques
| Daret
portrait of a Man" by Hans Memling.
"The Administration" by Roger van der
Landscape" by Aart van der Neer.
THE Toilet" by Gerard Terburg.
Last year these paintings were loaned:
PORTRAIT Of the Artist" by D'Alba Ma
crino. ,, ,, o.
"Virgin Adoring the 'hiio' WIN oaihts'
elaboration OF the Mag," by Bartolom-
meo Vivarini. ,,,r ..,,
Portrait of a Man with Book" Flem-
Eight decorative paintings by Hubert
| Robert.
In January, 1913. the big loan collec-
ton OF thirty paintings. still on exhibit
ton. was placed on view.
No further announcement has been
made nv the trustees Of the museum as
IN the nature of the memorial which
will be erected by the museum In honor
of Mr.. Morgan. Persons in close touch
with museum affairs think the memo
rial will be placed in the Morgan wing.
for II is believed that most OF the Nor