New acquisitions at the Met
August 4 2014
Picture: Metropolitan Museum
A reader alerts me to three recent acquisitions at the Metropolitan Museum in New York: above is a Portrait of a Woman by Giovanni Battista Gaulli, which sold at Sotheby's in New York in January for $569,000; a c.1650 Saint Francis in Ecstasy by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was, it seems from the credit line, bought in a part-exchange; while Pedro Orrente's c.1625/30 Crucifixion was acquired with funds from Sotheby's head of Old Masters in New York, George Wachter, so good for him.
Update - a reader writes:
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Re your Aug. 4 post on the Met's Portrait of a Woman by Il Baciccio: the Met's website gives the following information: Gift of Álvaro Saieh Bendeck, Jean-Luc Baroni, and Fabrizio Moretti, in honor of Keith Christiansen, 2014.
I wonder if giftors ask Keith for guidance before they "shop." Does he have a registry?
