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Annual Report METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT TRUSTEES OF THE ASSOCIATION, May, 1878. 1 J.S West \.\th SI reel, \cw VORk. L1IAVTS A LOI "|'UI-:i., MAS,L'KA'"n:nlMi STATlONIiKK AND P Nn 15 Maiden L;ini\ New Vnid;. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE ASSOCIATION, May, 1878. No. 128 West 14th Street, NEW YORK. OFFICERS OF THE MUSEUM FOR THE YEAR ENDING MAY, 1879. President : JOHN TAYLOR JOHNSTON. Vice-Presidents : WILLIAM C. PRIME, D. HUNTINGTON. Treasurer : F. W. RHINELANDER. Secretary : L. P. DI CESNOLA. Assistant Secretary : THOMAS BLAND. BOARD OF TRUSTEES. EX-OFFICIO : THE PRESIDKM . VICE-PRESIDENTS, TREASURER AND SECRETARY. THE COMPTROLLER OP THE CITY OF NEW YI THE PRESIDENT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS. THE PKI IF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN. FOR THE TERM ENDING MAY, 1879. RICHARD BUTLER, THEODORE WESTON, WILLIAM L. ANDREWS. FOR THE TERM ENDING MAY, 1880. JOHN Y. A. WARD. FREDERIC E. CHURCH, CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, JR. FOR THE TERM ENDING MAY, 1881. HENRY G. MARQUAND, RICHARD M. HUNT, ROBERT GORDON. FOR THE TERM ENDING MAY, 188a. S. WHITNEY PHOENIX, SALEM II WALES, F. W. STEVENS. FOR Till TERM ENDING MAY, I>SS;. S. L. M. BARLOW, WILLIAM W. ASTOR, SAMUEL P. AVERY. FOR THE TF.RM ENDING MAY, 1884. RllHERFURD STUYVESANT, WI1.1.1AM E. DODGE, Jx. JOSKIMI II. CHOATB, For i in TERM ENDING MAY, 1885. SAMUEL GRAY WARD. ORGE WM. QURTIS, ROBERT HOB, J«. STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. Executive Committee. WILLIAM E. DODGE, J*. WILLIAM W. ASTOR, HENRY G. MARQUAND, RUTHERFURD STUYVESANT, ROBERT HOE, JR. WILLIAM L. ANDREWS. JOHN TAYLOR JOHNSTON,^ WILLIAM C. PRIME, D.HUNTINGTON, \ Ex Officio. F. W. RHINELANDER, L. P. DI CESNOLA, Auditing Committee. SAMUEL GRAY WARD, ROBERT GORDON, JOSEPH H. CHOATE. SUB-COMMITTEES OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Finance Committee. WILLIAM E. DODGE, JR. WILLIAM W. ASTOR, F. W. RHINELANDER, J. T. JOHNSTON, (ex-off.) Gift and Loan Committee. ROBERT HOE, JR. WILLIAM C. PRIME, L. P. DI CESNOLA, J. T. JOHNSTON, (ex-off.) Exhibition Committee. WILLIAM C. PRIME, ROBERT HOE, JR. D. HUNTINGTON, J. T. JOHNSTON, (ex-off.) Supply Committee. HENRY G. MARQUAND, RUTHERFURD STUYVESANT, WILLIAM L.ANDREWS, J. T. JOHNSTON, (ex-off.) Building Committee. F. W. RHINELANDER, WILLIAM W. ASTOR, HENRY G. MARQUAND, I. I. JOHNSTON, (ex-off.) REPORT. To the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Trustees of the Association for the year ending May, 1878, respectfully report: The receipts during the year have been as follows: Cash on hand at the beginning of the year, . $3,080 57 Subscriptions to funds, paid in, . 5,100 00 Annual Subscriptions, ..... 3,760 00 Exhibitions, . entrance money, $1,273 75 Castellani Loan Exhibition, " . L705 25 Sales of Catalogues, Museum, . 693 55 " " Castellani Loan Exhibition 279 60 " Photographs, . 118 05 4,070 20 Department of Public Parks, accoi int of appropriation, 1876. • $2,4H 20 1877, . L3,335 96 1878, . 2,529 67 18,279 83 Loans Payable, • • 3,505 25 Receipts for the year $37,795 85 The expenditures have been as follows: Rent • $9-333 33 General Expenses, 7,221 99 Salaries, ..... 3,000 00 Fire Insurance, 2 years, 2,695 13 Taxes, ..... • 3,442 i5 Gas and Coal, .... 586 60 Printing, Catalogues. Photographs, Sta- tionery, &c, • L376 85 Alterations and Repairs. 63 K)c 527,719 24 Interest, (balance), . , 548 07 Cesnola Collections, mainly on account of p ur- chase of second collection, 6,1 iS 04 Show Cases and Furniture, 1S1 89 Castellani Loan Exhibition, . , , , 2,613 45 Cash on hand, May 1st, 1878, 615 16 ' ' 1537,79 5 85 6 The present financial condition of the Museum is as follows: Total Subscriptions to Fund, paid, . $321,675 06 Donations of Works of Art, value, . 74,140 50 Loans Payable, 3>505 25 Sundry Accounts, 9 58 $399,330 39 Paid for Paintings, Drawings, &c, $145,494 74 Works of Art, Donations, . 74,140 50 Cesnola Collections ($17,000 still due), , 121,866 98 Kensington Reproductions, 3,160 76 Etchings, 3,248 39 Show Cases 9,169 30 Furniture, . 1,432 84$358,5i3 51 General expenses and repairs, (balance), . 40,201 72 Cash on hand, May 1st, 1878, 615 16 $399,330 39 The history of the Museum during the past year fur­ nishes abundant reason for congratulation. In their last report the Trustees stated their desire to make prominent the educational importance of the institution. This im­ portance has been made manifest by the large attendance on free days of the general public, by the constant use of the privileges of study and copying by the Art students to whom they are freely given, by the use which has been extensively made of the Museum for ideas and models by artizans, by the increasing interest visible throughout the country in Art products, either ornamental alone, or unit­ ing ornament with utility, and notably by the importance which the Cesnola Collection has acquired during the year, and which has directed toward it the attention of scholars in all countries. The publication and extensive sale of General di Cesnola's interesting and valuable account of his explorations in the Island of Cyprus, has contributed much to this importance. In their last report the Trustees announced the purchase of the second Collection of Cypriote antiquities made by General di Cesnola, and the reception and arrangement for exhibition of that portion of it consisting of the gold and other treasures found in the vaults of the temple at Curium. The entire purchase included an immense num­ ber of objects of ancient art, packed in more than two hundred cases and hampers. There being no room in the Fourteenth Street building for the unpacking and exam­ ination of these objects, they have until recently remained unopened in the basement of the building, with the above exception. The Curium treasures, thus shown to the public for the first time in more than two thousand years, attracted the attention of all lovers of art by the beauty of many of the articles. Messrs. Tiffany & Co. of this city were authorized to make reproductions of some of the finest specimens of old jewelry, and the necklaces, brace­ lets, rings and other beautiful works in gold which they have made in fac simile have been widely scattered, con­ veying in many directions the ideas and instruction of Phoenician and Greek artists. While these old forms of beauty thus revealed to modern eyes, were sources of general gratification, archaeological students recognized in the Curium treasures a field of investigation hitherto unexamined because practically un­ known. Styles of art, forms of decoration, methods of manufacture, without example in former collections of antiquities, arrested attention as they indicated a period of art, apparently either Phoenician or Archaic Greek, which had not before been placed under the eyes of modern scholarship. Among the many engraved objects in gold and stones were specimens which take rank as without equals of their class in former discoveries. The sard en­ graved with the story of Boreas and Orithyia was pro­ nounced by the highest authorities in Glyptic Art "perhaps "the most precious example of Greek Art just emerging "from the .Archaic stage hitherto brought to light;" a calcedony engraved with the Rape of Proserpine was 8 ranked as a gem which may " safely be placed at the head "of all that is known in the Archaic style;" while the dis­ covery of the Curium treasure was regarded as "a true "revelation of the history of the Glyptic Art in its rise "and progress from the earliest times down to the begin- "ning of the fifth century before our era." Peculiar styles of decoration, unlike anything before known as Phoenician or Greek, had been observed on gold bosses or circular objects in the first collection and these styles were found extensively illustrated in the diadems, plaques, mouth­ pieces found with the dead, circular and other golden orna­ ments, in which the second collection is very rich. Many statues in the Museum, belonging to the first collection, were found to have portions of dress, belts and other articles of apparel, ornamented with the circular bosses or "buttons," indicating the use of some of the specimens found. Attention was directed toward these peculiar decorations and the class of Art to which they pointed as among the early influences affecting Greek Art history. Additional interest was given to them when the dis­ coveries of Dr. Henry Schliemann at Mycenae were pub­ lished in Europe and America, accompanied by numerous illustrations from photographs of gold and other objects. While these marvellous treasures were exciting the atten­ tion of European scholars, and were regarded as works of an art and an art-period wholly unknown and elsewhere unillustrated, the}' were at once recognized by American scholars to be, in great part, local examples of the same school illustrated in the Cesnola Collection by the numer­ ous examples referred to. These are in fact the same ob­ jects, in gold and in pottery, with the same decorations, in the same styles of manufacture, and obviously products of the same workmen and the same art-period. The import­ ance of the Cesnola discoveries which exhibited these ob­ jects, and in some cases showed their uses, illustrated on life- size and smaller statues, w.is immediately manifest, and they have at once become an important aid to archaeologists in the effort to explain local discoveries like those at .Myccn.e. 9 When the Cesnola Collections came to America, the idea was reiterated in Europe that sending them here was equivalent to burying them again from the world.
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