New-York tribune., 1921-09-23
Rare Pai1ltings
|LOanedMuseuna
By Stillr11an
Twelve, Including Murillo,
Rembrandt andP Pontormo,
To Be Permanent Part of
metropolitan Collection
1mpressionist Exhibition
Was Held in Response to
Requests, Bulletin Saws

notable collection of paintings has
come to the Metropolitan Museum of
Art as a permanent loan, the museum
announced yesterday There are twelve
canveses, one of them being a Rem
brandt. Charles Chauncey Stillman. Of
East Sixty-seventh Street, donated
them in memory of his father. James
Stillman, onetime president of the Ma
tlonal City Bank. Descriptions of the
pictures and other recent accessions
placed on exhibition at the museum to-
day are contained in the new MONTHLY
bulletin.
Eight of the pictures belong to the
Italian Renaissance. They are "virpin
and Child by Tiepolo; two subjects.
each entitled Portrait of Man" bv
Moroni; Virgin and Child with Pome-
granate,' by Gianpietrino; Saint Bar
bara," by Francia; Virgin and Child
With Bird" by Boccaccino: "Halber-
dier,' by Pontormo, and Portrait of a
Middle-aged Man." by Lorenzo di Credi.
Two others represent the French of
the eighteenth century: "Portrait of
Mile Blondel de Gagny," by Natter,
and Portrait of a Lady" by vestier.
"A fine example of Spanish art by Mu-
rlllo, "The Madonna and Child.b and
Kembrandt's Portrait of Titus" com
plete the loan.
The paintings are hung in the gall
leries housing examples of their re-
spective schools. While they are cata-
logued as permanent loan, it is said
the pictures will literally be ecome part
OF the museums art property Conf
sldered especially fine are the tHal-
berdler' of Pontormo, the Murillo and
the Rembrandt, the first named having
been formerly in the collection of the
Princess Mathilde. PORTRAIT of Titus"
represents Rembrandt's son and was
painted just prior to the painters
death.
Collection from Near East
Other acquisitions announced in
clude collection of Near Eastern art
objects Of the seventeenth and eigh-
teenth centuries, which are the gift of
Miss Lily Place, resident of Cairo.
In this group are two important Box
hara textile hangings from Asia Minor
done in vari-colored floral design, and
seven pieces of Persian lacquer wood
work, in characteristic DESIGNS. Be-
sides there is an interesting Egyptian
bath box, inlaid with ivory and stained
woods, used as a receptacle for volun-
tary offerings for the upkeep of the
native public baths. 1t comes from the
sixteenth century.
Another group accession includes five
paintings bequeathed to the museum
by Mary l.. Harrison. The works are
by Salvador Rosa, Sanford r. Clifford,
To- ~ I Wy
ington Whittredge. Colonel Charles A.
Fowler has given the painting Wal
cheren," by Alexander Shilling.
Explain Impressionist Exhibits
The first detailed statement issued
by the museum on the recent "pro-
test letter" attacking the impressionist
and post-impressionis exhibition is
printed in the bulletin.
1t declares that the officers of the
museum welcomed the protest, even
though it came at the close Of the ex-
hibition, though it was unsigned and
addressed not to them but to their tel
low citizens. In responding to requests
of many prominent citizens to hold
such an exhibition "the museum was
perfectly aware of the fact that these
impressionist and post-impressionist
paintings have evoked excessive admi-
ration and excessive detestation."
Whether the exhibition had that effect
was quite aside from the purpose of
holding it, the statement said.
The program Of free Saturday and
Sunday lectures throughout the winter
is also announced to begin the first
week in November and to include TWEEN
ty-one subjects treated by leading art
Short-story hours for chill
dren and special lecture courses also
have been prepaceS~ information being
available at the museum.