Norton Simon Shares Its Holdings

PASADENA, Calif.—The Norton Simon Museum is finally sharing its treasures, after 30 years of refusing to loan its European Old Masters and Impressionists, the Los Angeles Times reports. The museum loaned Raphael's Madonna and Child With Book to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art last year, and this year, Rembrandt's Portrait of a Boy in a Fancy Dress hung for four months at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Now, the Frick Collection in New York will show five of the Norton Simon's 16th- and 17th-century works, by Peter Paul Rubens, Jacopo Bassano, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Francisco de Zurbarán, and Guercino for three months. In exchange for all these loans, the Norton Simon will show works, which have yet to be chosen, from the Frick and the National Gallery in 2008 and 2009.