... Open Art Data ...: The Paris art dealer who sold the looted work to the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum was François Heim

1. How did Jacopo Zucchi's “The Bath of Bathsheba” get from Italy to Connecticut where it hung at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Hartford from 1965, until it was "restituted" to the Italians?*

Who was the "Paris dealer" who sold the looted painting to the Wadsworth museum?

Plundered art: a perspective from the Holocaust Art Restitution Project tells the story - and the story of the story.

see:

21 August 2011 Jacopo Zucchi, “The Bath of Bathsheba”: or how pieces of a story build a new story about the same story ex post facto

2. What other artworks were sold to museums by François Heim?

Triptych of Madonna and Child with Angels, LACMA M.69.54

According to the Getty Provenance Index records, Triptych with the Madonna and Child with Saints (Los Angeles County Museum of Art M.69.54) was acquired by LACMA from François Heim in 1969.

Provenance of Paintings Record 345

MASTER OF THE LEGEND OF S. LUCY

Triptych with the Madonna and Child with Saints

Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

M.69.54

triptych on wood

(Additional Subjects: left wing: S. Peter Martyr and donor; right wing: S. Jerome)

Belgique. Anonymous collection

Cittadella, Marquis. Lucca, Italia (by inheritance from a Flemish woman who married into the Cittadella family)

1883/04/09 (0152)

Toscanellli sale (Sambon) Firenze

- 1883

Toscanelli, Giuseppe. Firenze, Italia

by 1900 -

Sedelmeyer Gallery. Paris, France (as Flemish 15th c.)

bef. 1927 - ca. 1969

Heugel. Paris, France

- 1969

Heim, (François), Galerie. Paris, France

1969 -

Los Angeles, CA, USA. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (from Heim)

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LACMA also acquired Penitent St. Jerome in the Wilderness from the Heim Gallery ("from Corsini"). The painting has apparently been deaccessioned.

Provenance of Paintings Record 389

GUERCINO (GIOVANNI FRANCESCO BARBIERI)

Penitent St. Jerome in the Wilderness

Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

M.68.2 [deaccessioned]

canvas

in 1639

Ghisilieri, Giovanni Francesco (?). Roma, Italia (original commission)

by 1808 -

Corsini, Tommaso. Palazzo alla Longara, Roma, Italia

- 1967 (?)

Corsini. Firenze, Italia (by inheritance)

1967 - 1968

Heim Gallery. London, England, UK (from Corsini)

1986/01/17 (0020)

Los Angeles CMA sale (Sotheby's) New York

1968 - 1986

Los Angeles, CA, USA. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (from Heim Gallery)

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Other paintings acquired by LACMA from the Heim Gallery are listed below

Provenance of Paintings Record 9069

VANLOO, LOUIS MICHEL

Portrait of the Devin Family

Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

89.3

canvas

- 1882

Devin, J.J.. Paris, France

[residence in Paris: Hôtel de Chenizot]

by 1940 - 1987

Annel. Longueil-Annel (near Compiègne), France (hidden in Bretagne with a consignment of furniture from the Château d'Annel, 1940-45; returned to Paris, 1945)

1987/06/20 (0396)

Anonymous sale (Sotheby's) Monte Carlo

1987 - 1987

[Unknown]

- 1989

Heim Gallery. London, England, UK

1989 -

Los Angeles, CA, USA. Los Angeles County Museum (from Heim)

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Provenance of Paintings Record 26553

BLONDEL, MERRY JOSEPH

Hecuba and Polyxena

Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

73.3

canvas

- 1973

Heim Gallery. London, England, UK

1973 -

Los Angeles, CA, USA. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (from Heim)

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Other paintings passed through Heim on their way to museums

Portrait of a Woman Holding a Pencil and a Drawing Book, LACMA M.73.91
https://collections.lacma.org/node/240390

Provenance of Paintings Record 26821

LEFÈVRE, ROBERT JACQUES FRANÇOIS FAUST

Portrait of a Woman Holding a Pencil and a Drawing Book

Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

M.73.91

canvas

Heim Gallery. London, England, UK

- 1973

Palevsky, Joan, Mrs. (from Heim)

1973 -

Los Angeles, CA, USA. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (from Heim)

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The Blue Herons, Harvard Art Museums 1970.148

Provenance: Private collection, Germany. [François Heim, Inc., Paris and London (? - 1965) sold]; to David E. Rust, Washington DC (1965-1970) gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1970.

https://harvardartmuseums.org/art/311817

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The Colosseum Seen from the Southeast, Harvard Art Museums 2012.61

Provenance:

Collection of the Ninth Duke of Medinaceli, Spain (no. 109 in the 1711 inventory). Collection of the Duchess of Almazán, Madrid, Spain. [François Heim, Paris (by 1962), sold]; to Paul E. and Gabriele B. Geier, Rome, Italy (?1962-2012), gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2012.

Notes:

For object no. 109 in the Duke of Medinaceli’s inventory see: Vicente Lleó Cañal, “The Art Collection of the Ninth Duke of Medinaceli,” The Burlington Magazine, vol. 131, no. 1031 (Feb., 1989), p. 115, under no. 184.

https://harvardartmuseums.org/art/340103

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	The Adoration of the Shepherds,	Theodoor van Loon, MFA, Boston 2000.1035

PROVENANCE

Prince Capece Zurlo, Naples; François Heim, Paris [see note 1]. About 1988, Eric Turquin, Paris; sold by Eric Turquin to Claude Ott, Paris; sold by Claude Ott to a private collector, France; December 7, 2000, sold by this private collector at Sotheby's, London, lot C30, to Johnny van Haeften for the MFA. (Accession Date: January 24, 2001)

NOTES:

[1] According to correspondence in the MFA's object files, the painting was acquired by Francois Heim from Prince Zurlo.

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/314460/the-adoration-of-the-shepherds

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* not actually all that clear according to the article