WASHINGTON, D.C.—The National Gallery of Art in Washington has received a gift of 75 Renaissance sculptures from Robert H. Smith, a real estate developer and former president of the museum, reports the New York Times.

The renowned collection includes 67 bronzes, 5 boxwood carvings, and 3 ivories and is considered one of the most important private collections of its kind. Among the acquisitions are Seated Nymph, an early-16th-century bronze by the goldsmith and sculptor Antico, and a cast of Giovanni Bologna’s Cesarini Venus, a late-16th- or early-17th-century work that was once in a French royal collection.

Smith, now a trustee emeritus of the museum, spent more than three decades amassing the works.