Show LLE ENRICHED S Stuart Portrait Arouses Great Interest ret By W. W G. G A A. President Monroe by by- Gilbert Stuart ha just Just come cometo to the Metropolitan df r Art Artas from from- the Tho late Seth Low Lair It It-is It is one of three por por- por traits of of Monroe that were painted by Stuart There is authenticity In the h head with its small hin its small shrewd shrewd eyes yC and ita of crisp powdered hair Set within its generous frame apparently the Ordinal one it makes a sumptuous decoration may It It may foe he seen seen- during the thO next month in the room of of- re recent re- re cent accessions 4 Another gem among the tio recent S at the museum Is Lea a acard card table by Stephen mi Thomas and Thomas Goddard The material I any with the label of Stephen and Thomas Goddard attached It ad admirably ad- ad represents the work of I. I This table was purchased in hi Virginia where it was probably taken soon after the its it's The table is' is of the semicircular type sate gate support sup port the hinged fia An extra leg is Ingeniously placed to balance the gate leg leg- legat at the back giving the bl co a a symmetrical appearance when the flap is Testing resting against the wall v lI or folded over o the tho top of oV the table Ion ol of the rather deep apron of inch inch- square re strips of pine 01 of varying lengths sawed in ip segments of an arc and and- glued together The top toe flap fIat arid and square are solid mahogany the apron is yen yen- ven veneered Cored r p FEAST FOR COLLECTOR All the Inlaid ornament is delicately deli deli- cately executed and is unusual ia In tops of o the legs On the the divisions of the apron narrow bands of inlay inlay in- in lay trace a rectangle with quarter quarter- found j corners Outlining tho turn and across it in the r form of a drapery with pendant tassel is li O of tny pricked holsa very delicate The The legs legs cin- cin laid with narrow line line near the edges and with typical bell flowers 3 Tie The between these bellflowers bell flowers are y Twentieth century collectors of eighteenth century furniture re are re grateful for the pride of craftsmanship craftsman craftsman- ship and business acumen which prompted a few of df the merIcan wi cabinet makers notably those of Newport and Philadelphia to label f on oil this thu table printed fron a copper copperplate plate shows an oval mounted by medallion Jin closing a. a drapery This tablet table may be seen for tie the next month in- in Inthe the room recent of A A number i of objects objects' of varo various periods and materials that have hav been have been beCu placed on various galleries n Athenian in la the forni of a flying Eros a 3 fragment fragment- of an Etruscan vase of rod df that thatis Is sometimes found In seventh seventh sev sev- century tombs A A. faience of ofa ofa a hedgehog is is the gift of Albert Gallatin It of is a fabric not hith- hith the museum A marble of a. a slave boy sitting sitting sit sit- ting his lantern appealing 1 The urchin dressed in his slaves slave's shirt belted in in- at the wait has to guard it rom theft RARE LACE BOOK ACQUIRED William IM M. Jr of the the- print department the acquisition of of- laca of 1524 Herbert Straus is the this item which outstanding historic Im- Im It it was issued at by the younger Hans date of October 22 1524 forth in colophon ill Is the earliest of the called so-called lice laco books books' bOoks bOoks- and not appear In any of the cata cata- f S Th j arms and armor department has just acquired by by- purchase an art embossed helmet of 1550 ill illIs Is to sen for to- the ti-me ret rest of the the room of recent ions a a- a piece ly captures attention The Thc Thc-isor is embossed aa ae a a. griffins griffin's and the represents its beard the ee clear are ro- ro and alive the open which shows the lions lion's teeth forms form's the Its cI classic inspiration is obvious ari aM X It reminds one of R s of true and false grotesque grotesque- In iii which he he con con- tr the griff griffin In of the cathedral of Verona with the tho griffin on the frieze of the f Antonio am and Faustian Faustina at Rome Ruskin it may be would have con con- that tIis asplen- asplen splendid did example of true grotesque grotesque-a a of an an- anable able artist of th Renaissance The has have be n made In n Verona although it was more probably In plan which ceh was the ter Im The surface of this this' helmet 1 is now noi a russet brown but in places especially where the visor fits oye the bowl bawl ono may see upon upon Inspection the blu blu- ing Much of the original gilding of bf tIe mane beard beard- present and and the beak retain some of the silvering s S 4 The exhibition of Japanese prints print in gallery hall hail Is hi to be c through the month of September t A gif gift of t ten lacque pieces is month in the room or f recent accessions It 1 from Wilton Wilton- Lloyd Smith and nd war Mar ions Fleming Lloyd WIth one or or- two exceptions tho j signed of the early eary eighteenth century One of o othe the unsigned gold lacquer with pearl and pewter inlay is attributed at attributed at- at to Korin 1 61 1716 Who it may be s said said- ll- ll revolutionized the art of lacquering and w was to use pewter pear of for decoration S u a X A sculpture seating St. St Elzear French Elzear h fourteenth fourteentH four four- century which was purchased pur- pur chased museum ha 1927 now nw been Iv the hi the mu scum They bulletin of the museumS museum for for August deserved to the tb late John v Cotton Dana head of the free of New New- arl director of the Museum Mu Mu- seum association vOn On August 16 the i. i first view of its its' film en- en n- n Behind Scenes in 11 It It was announced an also that with beginning with weekly boa weekly a-weekly September showing on each Thursday at at- at 2 p p m the fali during fall acason season sea aca- son of MetroPolitan films The museum has thus far pro po- which are re rent rent- educatIonal for a. a nominal fee It thirty thirty- three other films of historical historical- irn port which are under similar distribution dis- dis arrangement |