450 REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



(free-hand drawing), Makart, Makovsky, Max (3), Meyer von Bremen, 

 INIiehetti, Miicke, Miinkascy (3), Pasini (3), Pettenkofen, Reynolds (2), 

 Schodl,Schreyer, Velten, Verboeckhoven (5), Wahlberg, Webb, Weng- 

 lein, Zinimermann. 



The collection of old masters is certainly not large, as indeed lies in 

 the very nature of things, but it is worthy of attention. From the 

 Demidotf auction in 1880 13 selected pieces, mostl}'^ of the Dutch 

 school, were withdrawn, which in 1890 the art institute was able to 

 buy; these were portraits of Rembrandt, Rubens, van Dyck, Franz 

 Hals the elder, and Holbein, the Guitar Lesson of Ter Borch, a Family 

 Concert of Jan Steen, an excellent landscape of Hobbema, the Jubilee 

 of Ostade, as well as pictures of Teniers the younger, Ruisdael and 

 A. and W. van de Velde. There are also examples of L. and H. Back- 

 huysen, Berchem, Brueghel the elder, van Croos, Aelbert Cuyp, 

 Fouquieres, Frans Francken the younger, Ghirlandajo, van Goyen, 

 Guardi, de Keyser, W. van Mieris, Mor, Murillo (2), A. van der Neer, 

 Perugino (4), Rembrandt, H. 8aft-Leven, Sorgh (2), Teniers the 

 younger (2), Ter Borch, Titian, P. Veronese (2), Wouverman. 



I have given this enumeration somevvhait at length for the reason 

 that in Europe, even in art circles, we are hardly at all aware that 

 Chicago can show so much in this held. 



Besides this permanent collection the art institute holds yearly, in 

 addition to exhibits of single fine pictures from private collections and 

 school exhibits, a considerable number of temporary exhibitions (23 

 in 1900) for which catalogues are issued, distinguished by their taste- 

 ful appearance, the following, among the more recent, for example: 

 Catalogue of the Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and 

 Sculpture by American Artists, October 30 to December 9, 1900 (281 

 numbers, 48 pages); Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Selected Works 

 of Modern Masters, Januar}^ 8 to 27, 1901 (63 numbers, 24 pages, 

 among them a series of eminent masterpieces such as it would hardly 

 1)0 possible to get together in Dresden); Catalogue of an Exhibition 

 of Works by Chicago Artists, January 31 to February 24, 1901 (198 

 numbers, 40 pages); Catalogue of Works of Dagnan-Bouveret, March 

 1-24, 1901 (29 numbers, 16 pages); Exhibition of Works of Elihu 

 Vedder, March 28 to April 15, 1901 (49 numbers, 24 pages); Catalogue 

 of the Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of Water Colors, Pastels, and 

 Miniatures by American Artists, April 25 to June 9, 1901 (376 num- 

 bers, 51 pages), and others. 



The librar}^ contains only 2,263 volumes, but including, however, 

 many expensive works, besides over 16,000 of the large Braun auto- 

 types. It is open daily, except on Sundays and holidays, from 9 a. m. 

 to 5 p. m.; on three days also until 7 p. m. for the accommodation of 

 the pupils of the art school. 



In 1900 there were given in the lecture hall for members and their 



