34 ANNUAL, REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1940 



in the National Gallery a section devoted to the advancement and pres- 

 ervation of American art. The gift includes the noted painting of 

 the family of George Washington by Edward Savage. Other paint- 

 ings given are as follows : 



Painting Artist 



John Randolph Gilbert Stuart. 



Mrs. Richard Yates Do. 



Lawrence Yates Do. 



George Washington Do. 



Joseph Coolidge Do. 



Alexander Hamilton John Trumbull. 



William Vans Murray Mather Brown. 



Richard Earl HoAve John Copley. 



CJolonel Guy Johnson Benjamin West. 



John Randolph Chester Harding. 



A Young Man in a Large Hat Frans Hals. 



A Turk Rembrandt. 



Portrait of a Flemish Lady Van Dyck. 



At the same meeting the Board also accepted from Mr. Mellon's 

 charitable trust two fountain groups by Pierre Legros and Jean 

 Baptiste Tubi. These groups were executed in 1672 on orders of 

 Louis XIV as a part of the decoration for the celebrated Theatre 

 d'Eau at Versailles and are exceedingly valuable not only for their 

 antiquity but for the quality of art they reflect. They are admirably 

 suited for the settings arranged for them. One will be placed in each 

 of the spacious garden courts which form an important architectural 

 feature of the main floor of the Gallery. 



During the year other offers of gifts of works of art were received 

 but were not accepted because, in the opinion of the Board, they were 

 not considered desirable acquisitions for the permanent collection of 

 the Gallery as contemplated by section 5 (b) of the act of March 24, 

 1937. 



EXCHANGE OF WORKS OF ART 



On June 17, 1940, the duly authorized officers of the Gallery, as 

 directed by the Board, on recommendations of the acquisitions com- 

 mittee, exchanged a terra-cotta bust representing Giovanna Tornabuoni 

 and attributed to Verrocchio, in the Mellon collection, for the painting 

 by Aelbert Cuyp entitled "The Maas at Dordrecht" and two monu- 

 mental eighteenth century marble vases by Clodion (Claude Michel), 

 all to be included in the permanent collection as more desirable and 

 needed acquisitions for the Gallery. The two marble vases by Clodion 

 are signed and dated 1782 and are said to have been made for the 

 Palace of Versailles during the reign of Louis XVI. The painting 

 by Cuyp is said by experts to be one of the greatest masterpieces of the 

 work of that master of the Dutch school of the seventeenth century. 

 The exchange had the approval of the donor. 



