Eight paintings, supplemented with a generous selection of drawings and prints, have been lent by private and public collections.

Fifty paintings have been lent from the private collection of Mrs. Chagall in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, near Nice.

The painting was frequently displayed at the museum and lent for special exhibitions around the globe.

The combination of the symposium, the closely argued and provocative catalogue and the generosity with which paintings and drawings had been lent from all over was irresistible.

This and other appropriate paintings were lent by museums in London, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere.

It and the paintings have been lent by a Greenwich collector who wishes to remain anonymous.

Increasingly paintings are lent abroad, ignoring Turner's provision that they be kept "constantly" in Turner's Gallery.

Although individual paintings by Velazquez have sometimes been lent by the Prado to foreign museums, the scope of the loans to the Met has virtually no parallel.

The painting was first lent in 1973 when Ms. Steichen wrote the museum a letter in which she "thanked God that my little Matisse is Home Safe."

It lies in extending the possibilities of the Prado disperso, in which paintings are lent to embassies, universities, and so forth.