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With best wishes.
Sincerely yours,
Jacqueline Kennedy
Indeed, Philippa Calnan responded to the First Lady’s invitation and visited the White House at the end of June 1961. Photographs taken during that visit can be seen at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum website.22 Today, three of the Cézannes hang in the National Gallery and five in the White House family quarters, but the eight paintings have never been installed together as an ensemble, as the Loeser bequest directed.
Despite these various donations, a substantial part of Loeser’s collection remained in the estate of the family. At some point between the promulgation of Mussolini’s anti-Jewish racial laws (1938) and the German occupation of Italy (1943) Loeser’s widow, the German pianist Olga Lebert Kauffman, their daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter left Florence, leaving behind valuable works of art, and ultimately settling in the United States. Several works from the Loeser collection were on the authoritative list of Nazi-plundered art compiled by the art historian Rodolfo Silviero (aka «the 007 of plundered art»), and at least two have been returned to the family. The Middle and High Schools of the International School of Florence are housed since 2003 in Loeser’s Villa Torri La Gattaia, situated on a hill overlooking Florence.