The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-24
|STILLMAN PAINTINGS
 ADDED TO MUSEUM
Twelve Loaned Indefinitely By Charles c. Stillman in Memory of His Father.

Memory Of His Father.
 New York, Sept. 24.-The Metro politan Museum of Art has announced ton of pictures in 12 fine paintings owned by the late James Stillman, had been placed in the Museum in his memory, as an indefinite loan by his
 There are eight pictures of the Italian Renaissance, two of the French Eighteenth century, a paint ing by Murillo and one by Rem Museums collection of Rembrandts up to Is, large number for any museum out of Holland to possess. This is one of the artists portraits of to be the same subject by Rembrandt i owned by the museum. The attribu- ton of the subject of some of Rem brandts portraits is given differently by different experts. This painting is of a young mans face in his hands, warm in color. It hangs in Gallery 26, with other Rembrandts Slav'' of the venderbilt bequest. It was formerly in the collection of the Duke of Rutland.
 These paintings, of which there will be eventually 14, two others not | to Charles Chauncey Stillman by his father, who died in the spring of 1918. James StilIman, after resign ing from the presidency of the Ma tional City Bank. an office which he | held from 1891 to 1909, acquired a | residence in Paris, where he spent part of each year. This house, on the Pare Monceau. which he pre- sented to the French government at | the beginning of, the war and main tained as a military hospital had been the home of the pictures.
 A Eorenze di Cridi Portrait
 
 paintings is one of the few. known and recorded, by Lorenzo di Cridi, a distinguished portrait of a middle aged man holding a bowl in his exceedingly interesting picture, for merly in the collection of Princess Mathilde, is a 'Ha1berdied," by Pom toromo, which hangs in Gallery 29, beautiful girl, but hands strong and powerful hold the shaft of his weapon It is a colorful picture, showing a mass of brilliant scarlet
 From the North Italian school are the two large, fine, strong portraits of men by Moroni, now hanging in Gallery 20. and in the same room is polo. There is a Virgin and Child With a Bird," by Boccaccio Boccac- cino, the Virgin with broad, pleas ant face; a ''St. Barbara by Fran cis, holds in her arms a small win dowed tower-a reference to a legend of the Saints having three windows built in a tower in which she was confined to symbolic the light of the Trinity entering the soul; and there | is Virgin and Child With 8 Pom egranate.', by Gianpietrino-all in | MuriI1c;s Madonna and Child is a characteristic work of the artist S later period, in one of the Italian rooms. Two beautifully gay and dec orative ladies are by Nattier and Vestier respectively. the two French pictures of the collection, and are in Gallery 20. That by Nattier is ot Mile. Blondel de Gagny, with a man. icate coloring; and Vestier shows "a young woman of the days of Louis XVI. in a picturesque costume ot white.
 MT. stillman has permitted the pic. lures to be distributed in the Gal. leries with the schools of paintings to which they belong instead of be. ing distributed in group, coltec.
 Recent Gifts to Museum.
 In the Recent Excesdons Room are modern paintings. Lake Ma ture Scene" by James M. Hard 'Gentlenan and Lady Making Mu. sfc," an excellent name for a picture by !. G Brown; and an unattractive wood scene by worthington Whit, l Col. Charles A. Fowler. There is also Ia delightful, soft-toned night scene t-fWalch eren,'' by Alexander Shilling troom are interesting gifts from the Miss Lilly Place, objects of 17th an6 18th century Near Eastern art. Mis-: Place, who is now making her home l tn Cairo, has been a collector, witt her sister. of various treasures of the East. Including in this gift is ar Egyptian bath box of the 18th ant With ,yo1H centuries .nS d o, inlat tb type of work which influenced tht Italian 18th century craftsmen in tht production of the so-called Certo. sino work There are beautiful tex
 tiles and some fine specimens O f1ndo-Persian lacquer.
 Exquisitely beautiful is another ex hibdt in the Recent Accessions Roon month, a marvellous handkerchief o needle point which Miss France Morris, Curator of Laces of the Mu scum, says is a piece of lace whicl point has never been surpassed is one of the treasures of Belgium which survived the ravages of tn war, a handkerchief made for Mari Henrietta, ArchducheSs of Austria upon her marriage to Leopold II. o Belgium In the design are tn crowned monograms of Marie an Leopold, M. and L.. the national arm of the Belgian King and the roya double eagle of Austria There ar floral bouquets and dehcate pilloN sprays and the cobweb fineness c the thread and the marvellous deli ! cacy of the stitches make 1t seer
 almost more than human finger could produce.
 Bashofrd Dean, Curator of Armo | of the Museum, will describe in tn coming number of the Museum Bu, letin recent sales of famous pieces ( = armor at which purchases have bee
 made for the Museum These q .h,,s, irn do4o =,