46 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1946 
GIFTS OF DECORATIVE ARTS 
On December 7, 1945, the Board of Trustees accepted two miniature 
paintings on porcelain, Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Conde (Le 
Grand Conde), and Henri Jules, Duc d’Albret (later Prince de Conde), 
by Jean Petitot, the Elder, from Lessing J. Rosenwald. 
GIFTS OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS 
The Board of Trustees, on July 26, 1945, accepted a set of elephant 
folio of John James Audubon’s Birds of America, consisting of 435 
unbound plates, a set of five volumes of text pertaining to those plates, 
and miscellaneous letters, clippings, and other papers relating to the 
plates, from Mrs. Walter B. James. On December 7, 1945, the Board 
accepted an engraving, “George Town and Federal City or City of 
Washington,” from Otis T. Bradley. On May 10, 1946, the Board 
accepted a lithograph, “In Memory of the Children of Europe Who 
Have To Die of Cold and Hunger This Xmas,” by Oscar Kokoschka, 
from Oscar Kokoschka, 17 lithographs from the United States Army 
Forces, Middle Pacific, a collection of prints, drawings, and etchings 
by Legros from George Matthew Adams, and a print “L’Heureuse 
Fecondite,” designed by Fragonard and engraved by Nicolas de 
Launay, from Edwin Wolf, II. 
LOAN OF WORKS OF ART TO THE GALLERY 
During the fiscal year 1946 the following works of art were received 
on loan: 
Particulars Artist 
From Clarence Y. Palitz, New York, N. Y.: 
The sNymphijof.the:Spring 2 ee Lueas Cranach the Elder. 
From William A. Coolidge, Washington, D. C.: 
View of San Giorgio and the Dogana from 
thesPiazza di San Marcos === eee Canaletto. 
be Ghaboureur eines 4 VO eee Vincent van Gogh. 
River View at St. Mammes_______-___-_- Alfred Sisley. 
Landseape on Isle of Wight-_-_-_-_-__ — Joseph Mallord William Turner. 
From Mrs. Arthur Iselin and William Jay 
Iselin, Katonah, N. Y.: 
Chief Justice Jonn Jay ee — Gilbert Stuart. 
Alexander Hamilton sss aa ee John Trumbull. 
From Mrs. Dwight Davis, Washington, D. C.: 
Captains Patrick Millers: 2.5 2322 — Sir Henry Raeburn. 
From the Army Institute of Pathology, Wash- 
ington, D. C.: 
1D Pe Ohi eS Tin tOn =. 2 a eee Thomas Eakins. 
From Samuel H. Kress and the Samuel H. 
Kress Foundation, New York, N. Y.: 
86 paintings and 12 pieces of sculpture. 
