[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 221 (Friday, November 16, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 64696]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-22448]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 5990]


Culturally Significant Objects Imported for Exhibition 
Determinations: Assorted Paintings by Gerome and Dahl

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the following determinations: 
Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Act of October 19, 1965 
(79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 27, 
1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 
Stat. 2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et seq.), Delegation of 
Authority No. 234 of October 1, 1999, Delegation of Authority No. 236 
of October 19, 1999, as amended, and Delegation of Authority No. 257 of 
April 15, 2003 [68 FR 19875], I hereby determine that the objects to be 
exhibited include four paintings by Jean-Leon Gerome and three 
paintings by Johan Christian Dahl, imported from abroad for temporary 
exhibition within the United States, are of cultural significance. The 
objects are imported pursuant to loan agreements with the foreign 
owners or custodians. I also determine that the exhibition or display 
of the seven exhibit objects at the Nineteenth-Century European 
Paintings and Sculpture Galleries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 
New York, NY, from on or about December 3, 2007, until on or about 
December 3, 2009, and at possible additional exhibitions or venues yet 
to be determined, is in the national interest. Public Notice of these 
Determinations is ordered to be published in the Federal Register.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information, including a 
list of the exhibit objects, contact Julie Simpson, Attorney-Adviser, 
Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State (telephone: 202-
453-8050). The address is U.S. Department of State, SA-44, 301 4th 
Street, SW., Room 700, Washington, DC 20547-0001.

    Dated: November 8, 2007.
C. Miller Crouch,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural 
Affairs Department of State.
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