New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-15
MORGAN ART SOON
TO BE ON VIEW
Museum Director Hopes to
Open Collection to Pub
lie Next Month.
STOVER'S VACATION
ONE CAUSE OF DELAY
Room Where Fragonard Panels
Are To Be Installed Is Not
Yet Completed.

Although every effort is being made to
place on exhibition next month the 400
objects Of art in the J. y. Morgan col
lection there is a possibility that the first
public view may not be had until Febru-
airy.
When asked yesterday about the forth
coming exhibition of the priceless art
treasures Edward Robinson. director of
the Metropolitan Museum Of Art. said:
1T is not possible vet to say when
the Morgan collection will be ready for
exhibition. No specific date is i'm mind.
except that we hope to have it open to
the public in January. but there is no
way Of telling now II 1t will be possible
To open it then"
When pressed for a limit of time in
which il might be hoped that the exhi-
bition would be ready the director did
not think il would be delayed later than
February.
But the museum is in no position
now he added. ito make any announce
ment"
II was learned yesterday that some
DELAY had been caused through the sud
denness and long duration of Park Com
missioner Stovers vacation. He had gone
away when the matter Of awarding a
contract for plate glass for cabinets for
the Morgan art objects had not been
finally disposed Of by the Park Board
One OF the biggest single pieces or
work I'm the preparation Of the Morgan
exhibit is the installation OF room 10
hold the fourteen wall paintings by
Fragonard. which consist Of six large
Panels. four overdoors and four small
long panels. Mr.. Robinson said the room
bad not beer completed.
II was a stipulation Of the late fnan-
rier that these panels, which were orig
lnally painted for Nine Du Barry, were
TO be hung in a room similar TO that In
his house in London, where they had
been hung before being brought 10 this
country.
As to the unpacking Of the art objects
Mr.. Robinson declined TO speak. From
another source il was learned that as
accommodations were made ready certain
partc Of the collection were unpacked
Besides the thirty-one paintings which
have been on exhibition for approximate
IL wear. the Morgan collection contains
the following groups OF art objects
Enamels. including the SNUFF boxes and
other small enamelled Objets dart OF the
eighteenth century classical bronzes ana
iewelry. bronzes OF the Gothic ana
Renaissance periods. silver, metal work.
watches and clocks. jewels. crystals and
objects in amber, Italian majolica, early
French faience. French and German
porcelain. Chinese porcelain. Venetian
glass. tapestries. furniture. worries small
carvings in lockwood and TOMBSTONE,
SCULPTURES. miniatures and the Fragonard
paintings
With the exception Of the miniatures
the enamels constitute the largest sec
ton of the collection. The miniatures
include S44 pieces. The SwenigorodsN
collection Of Byzantine enamels is said 10
be The most extraordinary gathering OF
these objects ever brought together II
consists Of fortv-three pieces. In addi-
lion there are 375 pieces, ranging In date
from the earliest times down through the
seventeenth century, and including the
Hoentschel collection Of medieval enam-
els purchased by Mr.. Morgan two years
ago.
In the collection Of bronzes there are
$50 pieces Miscellaneous examples OF
fewelry and objects in gold, silver am
bronzes number 40 pieces
The collection OF silver numbers l5O
uieces. There are fifty objects OF metal
work. The collection OF watches and
clocks includes 2GO pieces. There are
40 pieces described as jewelry and OBJ
tects in crystal and amber The worries,
constituting one of the most important
sections, number 225 pieces.