Word: fogg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Rubens' wandering masterpiece, "Descent from the Cross," has been returned to the Fogg Museum of Art, but Mrs. Jean Bullitt Darlington, the owner, has refused to drop the $100,000 damage suit she filed against the University until responsibility for the disappearance of the painting has been fixed...
Harry Lacey, a Boston interior the Rubens' painting, "Descent from the Rubens' painting, "Descent from the Cross," to the Fogg Art Museum, it was reported early today. Lacey allegedly had no knowledge of the value of the print, and recovered it from a pile of debris in the basement of the Boston Art Club...
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...
...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