A selection of 2003 museum acquisitions

Apollo, Dec, 2003

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Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL

Interior of the salon of the Archduchess Isabella of Austria by Willem van Haecht (1593-1637), c. 1621 33. Oil on panel 93.3 x 123.2 cm

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Bust of Marsyas by Balthasar Permoser (1651-1732), c. 1680-85. Marble, on an ebony socle inlaid with marble panels, 54.4 cm

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Top right: Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

St John the Evangelist by Baldassare Franceschini, called Volterrano (1611-90), after Carlo Dolci. Black chalk with brown wash, heightened with white on beige paper, 24.3 x 19.7 cm

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Right centre: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Last Communion of St Mary of Egypt by Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734), c. 1695. Oil on canvas, 209 x 142 cm

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Right: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Landscape with a tree and a farm building by Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), c. 1632. Pen and brown wash, 29.7 x 19.8 cm

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Dayton Art Institute, OH

Immaculate Conception by Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-82). Oil on canvas, 168.5 x 109 cm

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Old woman cutting bread by Gerrit Dou (1613-75), c. 1655. Oil on panel, 28 x 22 cm

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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Venetian family taking coffee by Pietro Longhi (1700/02-85), c. 1720. Oil on canvas, 60.2 x 48.2 cm

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Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

View of the Piazza Navona, Rome by Lieven Cruyl (1634-?1720). Pen and brown ink with grey wash over black chalk, 33.5 x 49.2 cm

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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Mediterranean port at dawn by Claude Lorrain (1604/05-82), c. 1637-38. Oil on canvas, 74 x 98.3 cm

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Detroit Institute of Arts

Bust of a gentleman, possibly Joseph Addison by David Le Marchant (1674-1726), c. 1704-10. Ivory, ht 23.5 cm

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Victoria and Albert Museum

King vulture by Johann Joachim Kaendler (1706-75), Meissen, c. 1731. Hard-paste porcelain, ht 57.5 cm. Purchased with assistance from the Art Fund

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Huntington Library and Art Collections, San Marino, CA

Dancing bacchante by Joseph-Charles Marin (1759-1834), c. 1790. Terracotta, ht 42.5 cm

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National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Bust of Marie-Sebastien-Charles-Francois Fontaine de Bire by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), 1785. Marble, ht 66.5 cm

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J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Still life with fish, vegetables, gougeres, pots and cruets on a table by Jean-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779), 1769. Oil on canvas, 82.9 x 56.2 cm

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Detroit Institute of Arts

Samson and Delilah by Pompeo Batoni (1708-87), 1766. Oil on canvas, 209 x 144 cm

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Peter Moores Foundation, Compton Verney

Portrait of a gentleman wearing a fancy costume and a plumed hat, smoking a pipe by Giuseppe Bonito (1707-89). Oil on canvas, 85 x 65 cm

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National Gallery of Australia, Canberra