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Loeser died in New York, during a visit in 1928, and was buried in the Cimitero degli Allori in Florence, which welcomed the graves of non-Catholics. By then, his collection comprised over 1’000 pieces, mostly works of Italian Medieval and Renaissance art, but also contemporary works, most notably an impressive collection of fifteen Cézanne paintings. Loeser bequeathed his collection of Old Master prints and drawings to Harvard University’s Fogg Museum of art, eight of his Cézannes to the President of the United States, and a selection of thirty works of art and furnishings to the Florence city council, which are housed in the Quartiere del Mezzanino of Palazzo Vecchio (where one can admire Bronzino’s superb portrait of the poetess Laura Battiferri). The Cézannes were initially shown at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, until the Kennedys took notice of the gift and decided to hang a few of them in the White house. In a letter dated May 2 1961, the First Lady wrote the following to Loeser’s granddaughter, Mrs. Philippa Calnan: