NEV.'S RLLEASE

National Gallery of Art Washington, D. C.

FOR RELEASE: April 29, 1948

WASHIilGTOH, April 29: David E. Finley, Director,

National Gallery of Art, announced today that the Army

had requested the National Gallery to select from the

202 paintings on loan from the Berlin museums approxi­

mately 50 pictures which are considered as most likely

to suffer damage or deterioration if sent on an exhibition

tour. Fifty-two paintings were chosen by the follow­

ing committee, which met at the National Gallery on

April twenty-seventh: John Walker, Chairman, Chief

Curator, National Gallery of Art; Daniel Catton Rich,

Director of the Chicago Art Institute; George Stout,

Director of the Worcester Art Museum; Stephen S. Pichetto,

Consultant Restorer of the National Gallery of Art and

of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Dr. Irene Kuehnel,

formerly Curator of Paintings of the Kaiser Friedrich

Museum and at present attached to Military Government

in the American Zone, Gerncny. '-The attached list shows

the paintings selected by this committee for immediate

return to Germany.

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No.1. Altdorfer, Albrecht

2. Angelico', Fra

3. Antonello da Messina

4. Baldung, Hans (Grien)

5. Baldung, Wans (Grien)

6. Baldung, Hans (Grien)

7. Bohemian c. 1350

3. Bosch, Eieronymus

9. Botticelli, Alessandro

10. Brueghel, Pieter the Elder

11. Campin, Robert(Master of Plemalle)

12. Christus, Petrus

13. Christus, Petrus

14. Cologne c. 1400

J5. Darmstadt Passion Faster of the

16. Domenico Veneziano (?)

17. Dtirer, Albrecht

18. Di'lrer, Albrecht

19. F,lshei^er, Adam

20. Eyck, Jan van

Landscape with a Satyr Family (Panel)

The Last Judgment (Panel)

Portrait of a Young Man (Panel)

Pyramus and Thisbe (Panel)

Mourning over the Body of Christ (Panel)

Saint George; Saint Catherine (a-b)(Panel)The Adoration of the Magi (c) (Panel)Saint Mauritius; Saint Agnes (d-e)(Panel)

Madonna and Child with Donor (Arch- Bishop Frnst of Prague) (Panel)

Saint John on Mouht Patmos Reverse: Passion of Christ (Panel)

Madonna and Child with Singing Angels (Panel)

Flemish Folk Sayings (Panel)

Portrait of a Man (Panel)

Saint Barbara Presents a Carthusian Monk to the Madonna (Panel)

Lady Talbot (Panel)

The Life of Christ (Panel)

The Madonna Fnthroned (a) (Panel) Adoration of the Magi (b) (Panel) The Holy Trinity (c) (Panel) Story of the Cross (d) (Panel)

Adoration of the Magi (Panel)

Madonna with the Siskin (Panel)

Portrait of a Young Woman (Panel)

The Holy Family with Angels (Copper)

Giovanni Arnolfini (Panel)

21. Eyck, Jan van

22. Eyck, Jan van

23. French c. 1400

24. French c. 1400

25. Giotto di Bondone

26. Gossaert, Jan (Mabuse)

27. Folbein, Fans, the Younger

28. "olbein, Fans, the Younger

29. Levden, Lucas v->.n

30. Lipoi, Fra Filippo

31. Lorenzetti, Pietro

32. Lorenzetti, Pietro

33. Fanter;na, Andrea

34. Farmion, Sin:on

35. Fa.sac do

36. Fasaccio

37. Ouwater, Aelbert van

38. Palma Vecchio

39. Piero di Cosimo

40. °ollaiuolo, Antonio

Madonna and Child in a Church (Panel)

The Fan with the Pink (Panel)

Coronation of the Virgin (Panel)

Christ on the Cross (a) (Panel) The Man of Sorrows (b) (Panel)

Death of the Virgin (Panel)

Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (Panel)

George Gisze (Panel)

Hermann Fillebrandt Wedigh (Panel)

Fadonna and Child with Angels (Panel)

The Tadonna idorim; the Christ Child (Panel)

Saint Humilitas Heals a Sick Nun (Panel)

Death of Saint Humilitas (Panel)

Presentation in the Temple (Canvas)

Altar of St. Omer (a)Life of St. Eertin (Panel)Altar of St. Omer (b)Life of St. Bertin (Panel)

The Four Saints Predella: ;. "t An Elderly Carmelite (a) (Panel) Saint Augustine (B) (Panel) Saint Jerome (c) (Panel) A Young Carmelite (d) (Panel)

Felicitations at the Birth of a Florentine of Patrician Family (Panel)

Kesurrection of Lazarus (Panel)

A Young Woman (Panel)

Venus, ?.'ars and Amor (Panel)

David with the Head of Goliath (Panel)

41. Raphael J'adonna and Child with the Little Saint John (Panel)

42. Rembrandt

43. Rembrandt

44. Rubens, Peter Paul

45. Rubens, Peter Paul

46. SiTnorelli, Luca

47. Verroccbio, Andrea del

48. Westphalian c. 1250-1270

49. Weyden, Rosier van der

50. Weyden, Rosier van der

51. Domenico Veneziano

52. Eyck, Jan van

Proserpine (Panel)

Saskia (Panel)

Isabella Rrandt (Panel)

Perseus Frees Andromeda (Panel)

St. Catherine of Siena, the IVagdalenand St. Jerome (a) (Panel)St. Augustine, St. Anthony of Paduaand St. Catherine of Alexandria (b)(Panel)

Madonna and Child (Panel)

Alta^piece: The Trinity with the Virgin and Saint John (Panel)

The Nativity (a) (Panel)Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl (b)(Panel)The iuap;i (c ) (Panel)

The Saint John Altar (Panel) The Life of Saint John (Panel)

(?) Portrait of a Young Lady (Panel)

Baldwin de Lannoy, Knight of the Golden Fleece (Panel)