180 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1956 



GIFTS 



A total of 112 paintings and 22 sculptures of the highest quality, 

 which had been given to the National Gallery of Art by the Samuel 

 H. Kress Foundation in 1952, were placed on permanent exhibition, 

 some of them in galleries newly finished for them. Especially notable 

 in this generous gift were the following : 



Artist Title 



Botticelli Giuliauo de' Medici. 



Master of Heiligenkreuz The Death of St. Clare. 



Altdorfer The Fall of Man. 



Mending St. Veronica. 



Desiderio Tabernacle. 



Verrocchio, Circle of (possibly Madonna and Child with a Pomegranate. 

 Leonardo). 



Bosch Death and the Miser. 



Giorgione The Holy Family. 



Titian Ranuccio Farnese. 



Diirer Portrait of a Clergyman. 



Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi The Adoration of the Magi. 



Tiepolo Apollo Pursuing Daphne. 



Chardin The Kitchen Maid. 



Bruegel, Pieter the Elder The Temptation of St. Anthony. 



In exchange for these 134 outstanding masterpieces, the National 

 Gallery of Art returned to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 266 

 paintings and 2 sculptures which had previously been given to the 

 Gallery by the Foundation and which had become less suitable for the 

 Gallery's collection. 



During the year, the following gifts or bequests were also accepted 

 by the Board of Trustees : 



PAINTINGS 



Donor 



Mrs. A. J. Beveridge 



Count C. C. Pecci-Blunt. . 

 Dr. and Mrs. Walter 



Timme. 



Howard Sturges 



Col. and Mrs. E. W. Gar- 



bisch. 

 Col. and Mrs. E. W. Gar- 



bisch. 

 Col. and Mrs. E. W. Gar- 



biscb. 

 Col. and Mrs. E. W. Gar- 



bisch. 

 Col. and Mrs. E. W. Gar- 



biscb. 

 Col. and Mrs. E. W. Gar- 



bisch. 



Artist Title 



Drouais Marquis d'Ossun. 



Corot L'Etang de Ville d' Avray. 



Rembrandt Old Woman Plucking a 



Fowl. 



Tiepolo Small oval ceiling design. 



A. E. Zeliff The Barnyard. 



L. Sachs The Herbert Children . 



Unknown Mounting of the Guard. 



Unknown Allegory of Freedom. 



Unknown Miss Arnold Holding an 



Apple. 



Unknown Miss Arnold Knitting. 



