European Art Treasures Added to Exhibit (Continued From First Page.) tions in England, France, Belgium, Austria, Spain, Portugal and . Each separate item has been checked for authenticity, and each is in perfect condition. Mr. Fin- ley, opening the exhibition, said: “In looking back over what has been accomplished by Mr. Kress and his brother and the other trustees of the Kress Foundation, their achievement seems almost incredible to any one who knows the difficulties inherent in such an undertaking.” The principal sculptured pieces are displayed in the East Garden Court of the gallery, and the newly purchased paintings All 12 new rooms with 28.000 square feet of wall space. Dr. William E. Suida wrote the catalogue of the paintings' Charles Seymour that of the works of sculpture and Perry B. Cott that of the small bronzes, medals, plaquettes, etc. Start of New Display. A Madonna and Child with Two Angels, believed to have been cheated by the School of Cimabue at Florence late in the 13th cen- tury, is placed at the start of the new Kress display. It is a work which may be all that still exists of a much larger compo- sition taken to pieces long ago. Four lateral panels representing the Virgin, St. Francis, St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, attributed to Giotto and his assistants and dated prior to 1337, are next in order.' They belong with a central panel en- This lady was queen in her own royal right. A young boy was the model for Cupid. titled “Christ Blessing,” acquired Christina of Sweden, one of the most famous When Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) wished to by Mr. Kress in 1947 and now are women of her is shown in a fine cut out of flawless marble an ideal of reunited with it. time, portrait example Sebastian Bourdon a the Classic of human he chose Also from Giotto’s school has by (1616-1671), gifted conception love, French artist. Her life was not she a lad of 10 or 11 as a and the come an impressive triptych of happy, yet living pattern, did herself the Crucifixion with scenes from impress upon her country’s history result is an achievement so natural that it has from the career and Europe’s. The Kress picture is a master been imagined that it actually was based on a the Passion and Venus Adorned by the Graces” is the title of one of the great paintings acquired by Sam- is work from any of view. cast. of St. John the Baptist. It uel H. Kress for exhibition in the National Gallery. It is the work of Annibale Carracci of point plaster but undeniably convinc- primitive Bologna (1560-1609) and has been written about with appreciation by historians of art since ing, especially for its mourners 1678. Some writers thought that Venus might be Diana, but it now is agreed that at the foot of the Cross—as realis- generally this idea was an error of judgment. tic as photographs. Bernardo Daddi’s “Madonna and Child En- throned” is a Florentine gem which formerly was in the monastery of Vallombrosa in Tuscanv. Next Treasure Offered. Two great painters—Fra Gio- vanni Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi—of Florence in the pe- riod between 1406 and 1469 were responsible for the next treasure offered. It is an Adoration of the Magi, beautifully organized In a garland effect. The Virgin and Child are held to be Fra Angeli- co's. In 1492, the year Columbus discovered America, this was a Medici property. Picture No. 10 in the new Kress ensemble is a strangely modern- istic Madonna $nd Child with St. Francis, possibly by Paola Uccello, who flourished in Florepce about 1440. The Obsequies of St. Anthony j Abbot represents one panel of &' series of eight by a painter de- scribed as the Master of the Os-; servanza Altarpiece, a Sienese con- temporary of Sassetta often con- fused with him- Certain to Be Popular. One of the pictures certain to be exceptionally popular is Ben- ozzo Gozzoli’s Dance of Salome from St. Marco, Florence, in which the story is worked out with great forcefulness. The Sandro Botticelli composi- tion in the new Kress catalogue is a Virgin Adoring Her Child which formerly was attributed to The of this sense Fra Filippo Lippi. It came from painter picture had a of humor. Sebastiano del Piombo by name, he the Paravey collection, Paris, and painted on the knee of Cardinal Bandinello Sauli an ordinary housefly (here encircled)—per- shows the Virgin as a very young haps as a reminder of the fact that even the dignity of a high ecclesiastical authority is sub- Here was an artist with modern scientific know-how. Nicholas Poussin (1594-1665) in the “Holy Family on the Steps” proved to a mother. ject invasion by mere insect. The cardinal, also, it seems, was not lacking in philosophic that he was a skilled master of light. He composed and arranged his subject material so that the Virgin and the Infant Christ Next appears one of the great- appreciation of the ludicrous. are illuminated for emphasis and the lesser figures are shaded to indicate their relatively minor significance. This entire picture exhibi- est treasures of the whole is modeled for compelling effect upon the beholder. tion—-The Coronation of the Vir- (14507-1517), which was owned by Domenico Ghirlandaio of Baron Nathanael de gin by Rothschild Albrecht Durer are among the the Hunt” belonged to King Fred- Florence (1449-1494). Both the from 1872 onward. It is a magni- new Kress acquisitions. The first erick the Great of Prussia and hi« and the Christ are ficent almost Virgin exquis-j work, photographic of these is a Madonna and Child successors. The Emperor Wilhelm beautiful productions, and its ltely in exactness but much richer with a symbol of the Haller fam- II sold it to Georges Wildenstein. the cherubim really look like an- than anything a camera can do. ily of Nuernberg. On the reverse Two Chardins follow—“The At- babies. Three Braman- gelic productions by side appears the second work— tentive Nurse.” which was a prop- Four Portions of rreaeiia. tino of (14657-1530) are Lot and his Daughters leaving erty of Prince Joseph Wenzel Four of a predella by A of a portions portrait young woman Sodom or Gomorrha and the city Liechtenstein, and “The Kitchen di Giovanni of Siena Benvenuto attributed experimentally to the exploding in the background as Maid.” (1436?-1518) were purchased by studio of fol- though hit by an atom bomb! with a Entitled “The Old Bridge.” Mr. Kress to join part lows. It is a panel which will atlr The third of the Durers is a por- Gal- "The Old is which he gave the National discussion and certainly deserve trait of a clergyman, executed on Bridge” the title of lery in 1939. They illustrate the further research, but it does not parchment and bearing the date Mr. Kress’ new Hubert Robert. Passion of Our Lord—small but speak of the painter of Mona 1516. Nearby is a Lucas Cranach It features the Ponte Salario, Immensely interesting dramatiza- Lisa as much as it does of Am- the Elder which onpe belonged built by Narses over the Anio. tions of the central theme of brogio de’ Predis. A similar reser- to the Duke of Saxony and Meis- Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun offers her Christianity. vation in favor of de’ Predis Is sen. It depicts the Madonna and portrait of the Countess of Scho- A mystical interpretation of the indicated for a portrait of a man the Holy Child as very human enfeld and little daughter with Infant Christ in the act of pro- standing against a gray-green persons. an unusual landscape painted into nouncing a blessing as though He window which is entered in the An Early El Greco. the background. Two Ingres of were a priest of adult growth fol- catalogue as by the Master of the Mr. Kress also has on display distinction close the picture por- lows. It is by Andrea Mantegna Archinto Portrait in the National a very early El Greco, the Deposi- tion of the show—“Pope Pius VII of (1431-1506) and has Gallery in London. tion of Christ, believed to have in the Sistine Chapel,” dated 1810 been a been studied under X-rays, so One of Great Prizes. cpmpleted about 1568. It in- and masterful portrait of Henri basis cludes faces so Marcotte that its strong geometrical The spectator now arrives be- accurately drawn d’Argenteuil, painted that it seems that the the same has been appreciated as it might fore a Flagellation of Christ impossible year. great Cretan individualist not be otherwise. Mantegna like- which certainly is one of the actually Works of sculpture displayed composed them. The wise is represented by a typical great prizes in Mr. Kress’ list. explanation include: “St. Barbara” in marble, seems to be that he was portrait of a man—a painting It may have been done by Rap- following Franco-Portuguese school of the for the moment. which came to Mr. Kress from hael, and it may have been done early 16th century; “Apollo and A fine of Hungary. St. Anthony Abbot by by Signorelli. The background is portrait a Spanish Marsyas,” attributed to Michel- lady — Dona Polyxena Francesco Benaglio, an artist an architectural tour de force. Spinola angelo; “Apollo of Lycia” jfi Guzman de whose surviving pictures are rare, Each of the three human figures Leganes—by Sir An- bronze, by Elia Candido; “Thetis” Van next Is follows in sequence. is an anatomical demonstration. thony Dyck, exhibited. in marble, school of Giovanni Omer Talon, avocat of Delicate and Poetic. “A Holy Family,” possibly by general Lorenzo Bernini; “Galatea and France in 1631, is the of Four delicate and poetic por- , has had an adven- subject the Dew,” Robert le Lorrain; a proud tions of a dismembered polyptych turous past. It was rescued from full-length portrait by “Cupid,” a famous statue by Edme de by Cosimo Tura (1430-1495) be- a shop at Brighton about 1887; Philippe Champagne (1602- Bouchardon; “Madame de Pom- The Master of the Archinto Portrait in the National long to the School of Ferrara. later it was in the Benson collec- Gallery 1674). A French interior is the padour as the Venus of the in London is credited with this of an They show the Annunciate Virgin, tion in London. portrait unknown man, name Of a characteristic canvas Doves,” Etienne-Maurice Falco- the Archangel Gabriel, St. Francis Girolamo ’s Portrait I standing against a gray-green window. Who the subject was by Louis Le Nain. The subjects net; "Calliope.” Augustin Pajou, is as much a as the of the are an and Bishop St. Maurelius. of a “Man in Armor” has Giorgi- mystery identity painter. Ambrogio old man, a woman in mid- and “Painting and Sculpture,” de’ Predis be the but the dle life Next in order is a mystery por- one characteristics, too. The artist might latter, question about the sitter A spiked wheel (not clearly shown here) furnishes a clue to and a little boy. Jusepe Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert. remains trait, supposgfl to be an Emilian was a Brescian and the subject unanswered. this Lodovico Carracci painting, “The Dream of St. Catherine of de Ribera’s noble St. Bartholo- Also these marbles by Clodion: artist of the 15th The mew is A century. must have been a first-class fight- Alexandria.” Owned by the Duke of Orleans many years ago, adjacent. Vestal, two Bacchantes, a Bac- is a of subject person importance, ing man, so sure is his pose, so to be cut apart for a predella. scription applied to a portrait by it descended to Mr. Kress through the collections of the Duke Poussins Next in Order. chant, Poetry and Music, and His is obviously. bearing princely defiant his gaze. Next follow two Next in the exhibition are two Jacopo Bassano of (1510?- of Bridegwater, the Marquis of Stafford and the Earl of Elles- Two beautiful Nicolas Poussins Madame Royale as an Infant. and he have been one of the Samuel may panels by Sebastiano del Piombo triumphal masterpieces. One is 1592)'. Rosso’s Portrait of a Man mere. The ^ntire picture has a luminous quality, always much are next in order. The first bears Henry Kress, principal lords of Modena. But can f of the Kress nobody of Venice 1483?-1547). The first Moretto da 's Pieta from and Bacchuiacca’s Young Lute admired. the title “The Feeding of the Child sponsor Foundation, be sure. The same observation ap- is a of a the Earl of is a native of portrait young woman Egremont’s gallery—a Player are displayed in associa- Jupiter,” a favorite theme of this Cherryville, Pa., born with to a in 1863. With plies equal logic portrait playing Mary Magdalen; the poignantly impressive interpreta- tion. Picture No. 53 is a beautiful artist. only a high school Kress’ accessions is a Ma- whom are musicians playing upon Melissa is the principal by Filippo Mazzola of Parma second a fascinating study of tion of the descent from the cross Madonna in with Infant |Mr. education, he went into retail Glory donna and child with saints in instruments in fashion about figure on the right, two river god- (1460?-1505), which represents a “Cardinal Bandinello Sauli,” his and the entombment of Christ. Christ Garofalo of j merchandising at Nanticoke, Pa., by Ferrara, and an enclosed an artist desses recline in the man in a garden by 1480. background. in black cap with a medal secretary and two geographers— The other is one of the noblest Picture No. 56 is a 1887 and gradually developed characteristic described as the Master of the The canvas was owned by Sir bearing a lamb. a composition which ever displayed in this part Bronzino Madonna Hans Memling's name appears the present Nation-wide system of challenges and Child with Flemalle Studio. Two of Robert Walpole and later his There are wings on the roster for a St. Veronica by two research. Among the questions of the world—a marvelous por- the Infant St. John the Baptist. Kress stores. His interest in art a triptych by Petrus Christus with the convential handkerchief son Horace prior to 1842. At that compositions in Mr. Kress’ bene- asked by this masterwdrk is: trait of a young boy, Ranuccio began as a young man and has Why Then follow a retelling of the (14109-1472?) show the likenesses date the other Poussin faction. The first of these is a are the showing the portrait of Christ. probably continued unabated more effigies of the three sec- Farnese, in the costume of a story of the Dream of St. Cather- through of the donors, a young man and Both faces are was in the collection of the Duke portrait of a bearded man, per- ondary characters so much more of Malta. A second distinguished by than half a Century. He is a Knight Titian ine of Alexandria by Lodovico his still of younger wife. extremely long noses, and that Sutherland. It shows the holy trustee of the haps “Francesco Gonzaga, Mar- strongly painted than that of the among the accessions of Mr. Kress owned Metropolitan Gal- Carracci, successively by An Expectant Madonna with on a stone series of chese di the other peculiarity also is noticeable in family steps, of Art as well as Mantua’’; and principal? But visitors to the is the fanciful Portrait of a Yeung the Duke of the lery president of Orleans, Duke of St. Joseph, an angel and two the next Adora- the Virgin and the two children Is a long canvas frieze containing gallery will want to know' as Venus the composition—an the National Gallery. par- Lady Binding Eyes Bridgewater, the Marquis of Staf- female youthful donors, is classi- tion of the Magi of great intricacy emphasized and lighted with great Mr. Kress’ about 30 human figures arranged ticularly why the creator of the I of Cupid, from the collection of ford and the brother. Rush Kress, Earl of Ellesmere; fied as being a product of the and with de- skill. in classic positions. The theme oicture has “mocked” his Baroness Kenloss. charm, brimming is 14 years his junior. He was subject and two examples of the school of is artistry Amiens, about 1437. The tail, including horses, dogs, mon- Mr. Kress offers in conjunction at thought to relate to the triumph by adding a housefly to the The castle of S. Angelo in of Annibale graduated Bucknell University Carracci—a land- studio of Simon Marion similarly birds and swarms of a of a Roman and the cardinal’s knee. | keys, people. “Landscape With Merchants,” in 1900 and is vice of general, pic- appears in the background of a scape once attributed to chairman Velaz- is credited with a Miracle of St. Shown in close affiliation are two Claude ture have a decoration A St. Jerome | by Lorrain, which he ac- the Kress chain of stores. may teen by Lorenzo Lotte Portrait of a member of the Con- and a Both quex wonderful Venus Benedict. Two an un- the of an of panels by panels, Conversion quired indirectly from the estate men are members of the of the house of "Francesco Cor- Venice (1-480-1556) is signed arini family by Tintoretto, exe- Adorned the Military by Graces. known Hispano-Flemish artist of Aryan by St. Remy and the Bap- of the Viscountess naro in Venice.” nd plainly dated. His contem- cuted about Hampden. The Order of the Loyal Legion and 1550. A second work Five specimens of the talents of the late 15th tism of century present Clovis, allegedly by the next portrait is that of the Sons of the American Photographic In Exactness. porary, Benedetto Diana, is repre- of the same artist is a of Queen Revolu- portrait Tiepolo are shown, including a Christ the Doctors and Master of St. a Altobello among Gilles, great Christina of Sweden, Sebas- tion. Samuel Kress is a Averoldo of. Brescia sented by a long poplar panel de- a of St. con- by Lutheran, procurator Mark’s, novel portrait of a young Vene- The Marriage at Cana. French artist of the 15th of Pola and Mary, century. tien Bourdon. It was done in Rush a Baptist. Both are Bishop Governor anc noting the Presentation and Mar- ceivably Francesco Duodo, a naval tian lady in domino and quiet, tricorne, Queen of Heaven, by the so-called The backgrounds contain the ear- or Vice Legate of Bologna as well as of with 1653 1654 and it certainly is philosophic personalities, inter- riage the Virgin, an arebi- commander at the battle of Le- formerly in the Pisa collection in known views Master of the St. Lucy Legend, liest of Paris. one of the works ested in portrayed in a popular pane’ ectural background which ap- oanto. truly important many different aspects of Venice. is a crowded Three Francesco magnificent work, examples of the genius of that era. life but modest even in their en- painted by Francia pears to have been Intended "A man of letters” Is the de- First of the Flemish division of with attending angels, most ofi of the famous German painter1 Nicolas Lancret’s “Picnic After thusiasms.