Janet G. Smith Fine Art Consulting & Appraisal

Janet G. Smith Fine Art Consulting & Appraisal Fine art appraisal and art consulting is our business. Please contact us about your fine art needs. She has been active in the art community since 1987.

Janet Gwendolyn Smith is an independent fine art appraiser, art consultant, art historian, art authenticator and curator. She is independent from any gallery, auction house, or museum. Smith consults in the areas of authentication, appraisal, program design, collection development, inventory and documentation. The past 25 years her focus has been her clients, their art and art research. She utiliz

es recognized experts to assist in the review of the art. Janet Smith is a member of the Art History Association (AHA), National Coalition of Independent Scholars (NCIS), Associate Member of The American Institute of Conservation(AIC), Associate Fellow of the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and past member of the International Society of Appraisers (ISA) Fine Art Committee. We provide fine art appraisal services. We assist 501c(3) organizations with fine art inventory or inventory updates. Smith completed the inventory and review of 97 buildings with over 3,000 works of art for a public school district. The fine art review can include: inventory, appraisals, spreadsheets for risk management; reports for asset reporting, insurance and accounting. References can be provided. Please contact us concerning your appraisal needs at www.JGSART.com

09/03/2026

"If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle."
by Vincent Van Gogh

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The Mona Lisa left the Louvre exactly once in its history for a foreign country. That trip happened because Jackie Kennedy asked for it personally.

She raised the idea with André Malraux, France's Minister of Cultural Affairs, during his visit to Washington in 1962. Many in France pushed back. Some museum officials argued the panel was too fragile for the crossing and refused to even sign off on it. Malraux overruled them anyway.

In December 1962, the painting sailed from Le Havre to New York aboard the SS France, sealed in a temperature controlled, waterproof case built to float if the ship went down. It traveled under guard in its own first class cabin, listed on the passenger manifest under a fake name.

The exhibition opened at the National Gallery of Art in Washington on January 8, 1963, with President Kennedy, Jackie, and roughly 2,000 dignitaries in the room. Over 500,000 people saw it there in three weeks. It then moved to the Metropolitan Museum in New York, where another million came through.

By March, the painting was back in Paris, and it has not left France since.

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