REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 29 



Publishers of large collotype reproductions of paintings in the Na- 

 tional Gallery have added 14 new titles to their lists during the fiscal 

 year 1947, and the Publications Fund is now able to offer a total of 

 52 of these large reproductions to the public. 



CUSTODY OF GERMAN SILVER 



Under date of February 21, 1947, the Secretary of War requested 

 the National Gallery of Art to provide space and safe storage for the 

 HohenzoUern silver service, following a ruling by the War Depart- 

 ment with the concurrence of the Treasury Department that the silver- 

 ware is the property of the United States. On April 11, 1947, the 

 Gallery received from the War Department 44 sealed cases, weighing 

 approximately 7 tons, .said to contain silverware and glassware, and 

 placed the cases in a storage room for indefinite custody and storage. 



ACQUISITIONS 

 GUTS OF PAINTINGS AND BCTTLPTURB 



On August 8, 1946, the Board of Trustees accepted the following 

 group of 19 French paintings from Samuel H. Kress and the Samuel 

 H. Kress Foundation : 



Artist Title 



Boucher, Francois Allegory of Painting. 



Boucher, Francois Allegory of Music. 



Boucher, Francois Madame Bergeret. 



Drouais, Francois-Hubert Group Portrait. 



Fragonard, Jean-Honore A Game of Horse and Rider. 



Fragonard, Jean-Honore A Game of Hot Cockles. 



Fragonard, Jean-Honore The Visit to the Nursery, 



Greuze, Jean-Baptiste Monsieur de la Live de JuUy. 



Watteau, Antoine Italian Comedians. 



Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Simeon Portrait of an Old Woman, 



Le Naiu, Louis Landscape with Peasants. 



Lorrain, Claude (Gellee, Claude) The Herdsman, 



Nattier, Jean-Marc Madame de Caumartin as Hebe. 



Poussin, Nicolas The Baptism of Christ. 



Rigaud, Hyacinthe President Hebert. 



Vigee-Lebrun, Elisabeth Marquise de Laborde. 



Watteau, Antoine "Sylvia" (Jeanne-Rose Guyonne Benozzi), 



Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Madame Moitessier. 



Pater, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fete Champetre, 



The Board of Trustees on November 25, 1946, accepted from Samuel 

 H. Kress and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation the painting, "The 

 Laocoon," by El Greco, and the portrait of Monsignor Diomede Fal- 

 conio, by Thomas Eakins, from Stephen C. Clark. On January 7, 

 1947, the Board of Trustees accepted from an anonymous donor a 



