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Loans to the National Gallery April 2009–March 2010 the national gallery 1 review of the year 2009 – 2 0 1 0 loans to the national gallery april 2009–march 2010 The following pictures were on loan Böcklin A Cliff Face Kerrich Distant View of Lowestoft from the at the National Gallery between April Boldini In the Garden South 2009 and March 2010 British (?) The Fourvière Hill at Lyon Knip Green Mountains * Pictures returned Bürkel Distant View of Rome with the Kølle A Courtyard in Rome Baths of Caracalla in the Foreground Leighton Archway on the Palatine Her Majesty The Queen Buttura A Road in the Roman Campagna Leighton On the Coast, Isle of Wight Workshop of Fra Angelico Blessing Camuccini Ariccia Leighton Houses in Capri Redeemer Camuccini A Fallen Tree Trunk Leighton Houses in Venice Gentile da Fabriano The Madonna and Camuccini Landscape with Trees and Rocks Leighton An Outcrop in the Campagna Child with Angels (The Quaratesi Cels Sky Study with Birds Leighton View in Capri Madonna) Closson Antique Ruins (the Baths of Leighton A View in Spain Gossaert Adam and Eve Caracalla?) Leighton The Villa Malta, Rome Leighton Cimabue’s Celebrated Madonna Closson The Cascade at Tivoli Leighton Trees at Cliveden* is carried in Procession through the Attributed to Coignet River Landscape Leighton An Artist Sketching in the Cloister Streets of Florence* Attributed to Constantin Bridge at Subiaco of S. Gregorio, Venice* Pesellino Saints Mamas and James (Framed Attributed to Corot Staircase in the Mason The Villa Borghese with Pesellino The Pistoia Santa Trinità Entrance to the Villa of Maecenas, Tivoli Michallon A Torrent in a Rocky Gorge Altarpiece NG727, NG3162, NG3230 and Costa After a Shower near Pisa Michallon A Tree NG4428) Costa Porto d’Anzio Nittis Winter Landscape Danby A Boat-Builder’s Yard Pitloo View of the Aventine Hill from the The Trustees of the Abercorn Heirlooms Degas Promenade beside the Sea Palatine Settlement Denis Cliff at Vicovaro Pitloo Vines at Báia Parmigianino Cardinal Lorenzo Pucci Denis A Torrent at Tivoli Reinagle Mountainous Landscape with Denis View of the Cascades at Tivoli Ruins and Buildings The Warden and Fellows of All Souls Attributed to Desportes Study of Two Trees Reinagle Rome: Part of the Aurelian Wall College, Oxford Dunouy Panoramic View of the Bay of Naples (the Muro Torto) with the Villa Ludovisi Mengs Noli me tangere Fearnley Coast Scene, possibly Capri beyond Fleury View in the Villa Borghese: the Reinagle A Trout Stream The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Casino del Muro Torto and the Aqueduct Attributed to Rosa Wooded Bank with Ceccarelli Virgin and Child* of Acqua Felice Figures Orioli The Virgin and Child with Saints French The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli seen Schelfhout Landscape with Cumulus Clouds Jerome, Bernardino, Catherine of from the Gorge Valenciennes Cow-Shed and Houses on the Alexandria and Francis* French (?) Excavation of the Roman Palatine Hill Theatre, Orange, France Valenciennes Rome at Sunrise, from the Andrew Brownsword Art Foundation French (?) View looking into the Val de Janiculum Gainsborough The Byam Family (normally Villé in the Vosges, France Wallis Rocks, Tree Trunks and Branches on long term loan to the Holburne German A Rustic House by the Sea Wals The Walls of Rome Museum of Art, Bath) Giroux Ruins on the Palatine Warren The Crystal Palace from Penge Sisley View of the Thames: Charing Cross Gourlier Acqua Acetosa Watts Panoramic Landscape with a Bridge Attributed to Granet View of the Falls at Farmhouse Tivoli Dunrobin Castle Collection Guillaumet Mountains in North Africa, The Government Art Collection Lo Spagna Christ carrying the Cross with a Bedouin Camp Gabrielli The National Gallery 1886, Attributed to Haes View of Madrid Interior of Room 32 The Gere Collection Attributed to Heinrich Landscape with Bertin View of the Gorge at Civita Figures bathing Graff Diamonds Ltd Castellana Joinville A Distant View of Tivoli Pissarro Portrait of Cézanne Attributed to Bidauld Buildings by a Weir Jones The Grotto at Posillipo in a Mountainous Valley Jones Landscape with a Distant View of the Sir James and Lady Graham Blechen The Capuchin Convent at Amalfi Sea (Italy) Batoni Humphry Morice the national gallery 2 review of the year 2009 – 2 0 1 0 Groeningemuseum, Bruges Stom Salome receiving the Head of John Degas Head of a Woman Jan van Eyck Margaret, the Artist’s Wife* the Baptist Degas Head of a Woman Fantin-Latour The Judgement of Paris HM Government Mauritshuis, The Hague Fantin-Latour Mr and Mrs Edwin Edwards Bonington La Ferté Gelder Judah and Tamar Fantin-Latour A Plate of Apples Fantin-Latour Roses The Earl of Halifax National Portrait Gallery, London Fantin-Latour Self Portrait Titian, Portrait of a Young Man Lawrence Lord Liverpool Forain The Tub Gauguin Faa Iheihe The Loyd Collection The Rector and Churchwardens of St Mary Gauguin Harvest: Le Pouldu Corot The Four Times of Day: Morning Magdalene Church, Littleton Goeneutte The Boulevard de Clichy under Corot The Four Times of Day: Noon Attributed to Jacopo Cione, Saint Anthony Snow Corot The Four Times of Day: Evening Abbot Van Gogh Farms near Auvers Corot The Four Times of Day: Night Attributed to Jacopo Cione, Beata Paola Hammershøi Interior Attributed to Jacopo Cione, Saint Bruno Henri Market at Concarneau (recto) Sailing Sir Denis Mahon CH CBE FBA Boniface Boats in a Bay (verso) Assereto The Angel appears to Hagar and Attributed to Jacopo Cione, Saint John the Liebermann Memorial Service for Kaiser Ishmael Evangelist Friedrich at Kösen Carracci The Agony in the Garden Attributed to Jacopo Cione, Saint Luke Manet Woman with a Cat Castello The Virgin and Child with Saint Attributed to Jacopo Cione, Saint Peter Mauve Milking Time John the Baptist Damian Mauve Watering Horses Crespi Musicians Monet Poplars on the Epte Crespi Peasants with Donkeys Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Monet The Seine at Port-Villez Creti Artemisia drinking the Ashes of Carracci Saint Francis receiving the Christ Monet Woman seated on a Bench Mausolus Child from the Virgin Morisot Girl on a Divan Domenichino Landscape with a Fortified Piero di Cosimo Portrait of Francesco Pissarro The Little Country Maid Town Giamberti, Musician Pissarro The Pork Butcher Giordano Apotheosis of the Medici Piero di Cosimo Portrait of Giuliano da Pissarro Portrait of Félix Pissarro Giordano The Cave of Eternity Sangallo, Architect Pissarro A Wool-Carder Giordano Minerva as Protectress of the Post Landscape in Brazil Renoir Head of a Girl Arts and Sciences Veronese Portrait of Daniele Barbaro Repin Study of an Old Man Giordano Allegory of Divine Wisdom Seurat Le Bec du Hoc, Grandcamp Giordano Allegory of Fortitude The Duke of Rutland’s Trustees Seurat Clothes on the Grass: Study for Giordano Allegory of Justice Poussin Confirmation ‘Bathers at Asnières’ Giordano Allegory of Prudence Poussin Eucharist Sisley The Bridge at Sèvres Giordano Allegory of Temperance Poussin Extreme Unction Sisley The Path to the Old Ferry at By Giordano Mythological Scene of Poussin Marriage Sisley The Small Meadows in Spring Agriculture Poussin Ordination Toulouse-Lautrec Emile Bernard Giordano Mythological Scene with the Toulouse-Lautrec Side-Saddle Rape of Proserpine The Society of Antiquaries of London Toulouse-Lautrec The Two Friends Guercino The Angel appears to Hagar and Simone dei CrocefissiDream of the Virgin Turner, Entrance of the Meuse: Orange- Ishmael Merchant on the Bar, Going to Pieces; Guercino The Cumaean Sibyl with a Putto Tate, London (on loan as part of the Tate / Brill Church bearing S. E. by S., Guercino Elijah fed by Ravens (acquired in National Gallery Exchange) Masensluys E. by S.* December 2009) Anquetin Two Studies for ‘The Three Graces’ Turner, Dido and Aeneas Guercino The Presentation of Jesus in the Béraud After the Misdeed Vollon View of the Harbour at Marseilles Temple Blanche Francis Poictevin Guercino Saint Gregory the Great with Bock Woudrichem The Master Governor of Trinity Hospital, Saints Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier Browne A Greek Captive Retford Attributed to Lingelbach Roman Street Carrière Head of a Child Lastman The Rest on the Flight to Egypt Scene with Card Players Carrière Winding Wool Liss The Fall of Phaeton Cazin Evening Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Reni The Rape of Europa Cazin Ulysses after the Shipwreck (Vincent van Gogh Foundation) Rosa Landscape with Travellers asking Cézanne The Avenue at the Jas de Bouffan Van Gogh Trees and Undergrowth* the Way Cézanne Still Life with Water Jug Schedoni The Holy Family with the Virgin Charnay Park of Sansac (Indre-et-Loire) The Earl of Verulam teaching the Child to Read Degas Carlo Pellegrini Petrus Christus Edward Grimston the national gallery review of the year 2009 – 2 0 1 0 Anonymous Loans / Private Collections Géricault A Shipwreck Niccolò di Pietro Gerini Adoration of the Aertsen Scenes from the Life of an Gossaert Virgin and Child Shepherds unidentified Bishop Saint Circle of Gossaert Triptych: The Adoration Picasso Child with a Dove Albani The Rest on the Flight into of the Kings, the Virgin and Child and the Pontormo Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Egypt* Pentecost Cap (Carlo Neroni) Angrand The Western Railway at its Exit Guardi Villa del Timpano Arcuato at Paese Renoir Gladioli in a Vase from Paris Hayez Susanna at her Bath Ruisdael A Panoramic View of Amsterdam Bronzino Portrait of a Young Man Holbein Portrait of Erasmus looking towards the IJ Caillebotte Man at his Bath Howard, Roma Quadrata: A View on the Savery Flowers in a Glass Caillebotte Portrait of the Bookseller E.J Palatine Hill* Sebastiano del Piombo Portrait of a Lady
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