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BULLETIN OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

AN IMPORTANT LOAN

By the kindness of Mr. H. C. Frick there is now on view at the Museum a painting of unusual interest representing the Deposition. It is a picture which has caused great interest among critics ever since it first became generally known at the Bruges Exhibition of Flemish Primitives in 1902. That it figured there at all was due presumably to an idea that its author may have been a Flemish artist, but when it was seen surrounded by undoubted Flemish paintings its isolation was so evident that critics were unanimous in endeavoring to find another origin for it. In the official catalogue at Bruges it was attributed to