NEW YORK — A longtime benefactor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art has proved her generosity even after death — with more than 370 donated works and $80 million for acquisitions.
The museum announced Wednesday that Jayne Wrightsman planned those gifts to the museum before she died in April at 99.
Keith Christiansen, the Met’s chairman of European paintings, told The New York Times that the bequest includes Van Dyck’s portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria and Delacroix’s “Rebecca and the Wounded Ivanhoe.”
The $80 million is part of the Wrightsman Fund, which supports acquisitions of works from Western Europe and Britain created between 1500 and 1850.
Wrightsman and her husband, the late Charles Wrightsman, have donated a total of more than 1,200 works to the New York museum over a half century.
The Associated Press
