New-York tribune., 1921-06-15
2 z S Varieties
Of Art Shown
I'm New Exhibit
I've Famous Paintings by
l4argilliere Are Among
Tie Acquisitions Of the
Metropolitan lM use IL N,
Chinese LoIlan Statue
Tapestries Illustrating His
tory of the Sabines Are
A d d d 20 collection

Many new purchases and gifts OBJ
tanned BY the Metropolitan Museum Of
Art. among which are two famous
paintings BY LargIliare and Chinese
pottery, Lohan or disciple of Buddha,
are announced in the Museums June
bulletin issued to-day, and viii be dis
played 1T the Museum row for the
first time. The list Of acquisitions
mentions objects representing twenty
FIVE varieties Of art.
The paintings, portraits Of the Baron
and Baroness de Prangins. we're one
time in the collection of the Count Of
Kerjeku, and were obtained through
the Rogers fund. In them the brilliant
court painter and portraitist Of the
Louis period in France is seen at the
height Of his art. The portraits depict
the manner and dress of elegant au-
thority OF that period as represented
by the nobility. They are hung in
Gallery 20 with other example, Of
their school.
In the rom of recent accessions. the
Chinese Lohan statue Is OF first i'm
portance. This figure of an old man
in priestly robes is one of series of
ten known life size pottery statues
from the Tang dynasty, 618 to 906
A. D., and one of the only four in
original preservation. The museum
considers this acquisition of the great
est Importance, particularly as it has
already one Of the other perfect ex-
amples. The figure seated on its legs
.9,,, Il ,,.5
sents an attitude Of judgment. It also
was obtained from the Rogers fund.
Three Tapestries Added
Two important paintings of the Bar
bizon school and three tapestries Illus
trating the history of the Sabines have
been added to the permanent collection
of the museum through the bequest Of
Mrs. Eloise L. Breese Norrie. The
tapestries were originally lent TO the
museum and formed a background to
the armor gallery, where they will re
main. They depict the seizure OF the
Sabine women, the battle and the tri-
umphant Romans returning with their
women, being attributed to the Ou-
denarde looms of the seventeenth cen
tury. A typical landscape By Theodore
Rousseau, showing a country road be-
side little pool surrounded by trees
and the charming Corot, called the
! "Wheelwright's Yard on the Bank of
the Seine" are the two paintings in
volved in the gift.
A fine purchase piece Of early
sculpture is the marble relief called
| Failing Asleep of the Virgin" by
Jacques Juliot, the elder, in the infiu-
ence of the sixteenth century school
of Troyes. The subject represents a
later development in the period OF
transition from Gothic to Renaissance
The Virgin is shown asleep attended
by the Apostles. The relief was for
merly in the Gr6au collection OF Troyes
in France and dates from about 1850
A gift from j, Pierpont Morgan is
that of the beautiful collection of sew
enteenth century needlework tassels
or glands which Mrs. Morgan lent to
the museum for the fiftieth anniver-
| sary celebration. They are made of
intricately manipulated threadwork
| used to finish the cord that fastened
the large lace collars of the Italian
noblemen and other seventeenth cen
tury dandies. One interesting example
is worked in ecru and metal thread and
another has pendant.