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Richard Stockton Bullit Darlington '48 has been reading newspaper accounts of the Case of the Missing Masterpiece with more than a passing interest lately, but he is maintaining a strict neutrality in the $100,000 court battle between his mater and his alma mater over the disappearance from the latter's Fogg Museum of the former's masterpiece by Rubens, "Descent from the Cross...
...painting, after a lengthy and highly publicized absence, was found, dust-coated, in the basement of the Boston Art Club and returned to Fogg Museum last week, but Mrs. Jean Bullit Darlington, owner of the art-work and mother of the Harvard Sophomore, has not withdrawn her suit against the University...
According to University officials, the painting--valued at $100,000 by Mrs. Darlington--was returned by an unnamed man who bought it from an equally anonymous art dealer for $40. Whether the oil is the original or merely a copy has not yet been definitely established...
Subsequent comparisons of Mr. X's painting with X-rays taken of Mrs. Darlington's painting while it was in Fogg in 1940 proved them to be the same. Aside from commenting that Mr. X is neither a "prominent Bostonian" nor anyone connected with Harvard, officials here refuse to talk about the return of the long-missing masterpiece...
After buying the painting from the Tessare family of Antwerp, Belgium, where it had been on exhibition, Mrs. Darlington brought the painting to the United States and placed in on exhibition in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 1940 she commissioned a representa- tive of the Horne Galleries of Boston to bring the painting to Fogg for authentication. Apparently without Mrs. Darlington's knowledge, the same agent returned to the Fogg Museum and took the painting to the Horne Galleries