May 9, 2025

RKD and Collections Trust Spoliation Reports: Antoine Seilern

Antoine Seilern and the Princess Gates Bequest appear in many provenances. This post gathers together information from the RKD and the UK Collections Trusts.

1. RKD search for Seilern

artworkartworkLabelprovenance
https://data.rkd.nl/images/238534A servant tells Abigail, that David asked Nabal in vain for sustenance (1 Samuel 25:14)1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/241917Abraham and Melchizedek (Genesis 14: 18-20)- Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/24646Ahassuerus holds out his golden sceptre to Esther (Esther 5:2)1952 - Seilern, Antoine Count - ; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/27749Anyone who is bitten by a snake is cured by looking at the brazen serpent raised by Moses (Numbers 21:6-9)1932 - Cook, Sir Herbert Frederick (3rd Baronet) - ; 1939 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/304320Apollo bestowing Royal Liberality suppresses Avarice- Morgan Grenville, Thomas George - 1925-03-27; 1791-04 - Reynolds, Joshua (Sir) - 1795; 1926 - Friedman, Dr. A. - ; 1927-06 - Koenigs, Franz W. - 1940-04-30; 1940-04-30 - Seilern, Antoine Count - ; 1978 - Courtauld Gallery - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/241957Assumption of the virgin1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/108598Atlas- Oppenheimer, Henry - 1936-07-24; 1936 - Seilern, Antoine Count - ; 1937 - Roozendaal, F. - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/271948Cain cursed by the lord (Genesis 4: 3-17)- Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/236714Cain slaying his brother Abel (Genesis 4:2-12)- Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/50684Christ as Man of Sorrows1939 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/103978Christus als Man van Smarten1928 - Rothmann - ; 1955 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/241962Coronation of the Virgin1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/24647Coronation of the Virgin1958 - Seilern, Antoine Count - ; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/241912David and Goliath (1 Samuel 17:51)- Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/24598David beheads Goliath with a sword (1 Samuel 17:51) 71H14431937 - Dubaut, Pierre - ; 1937 - Graupe, Paul - 1937; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/48874Deer hunt- Fitzroy Fenwick, Thomas - 1946; 1946 - British Museum - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/244663Eve takes the fruit from the serpent in the presence of Adam ( Genesis 3 : 6 )- Fitzroy Fenwick, Thomas - 1946; - Woodburn, Samuel - 1860; - Young Ottley, William - 1814; 1860 - Phillipps, Thomas (Sir) - ; 1946 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/237500Female nude- Fitzgerald, Gerald M. - 1922; - Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/242046Flight of Saint Barbara1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/331Founder portrait with Golgotha, entombment and resurrection in the background- Hill, Colonel R.F.W. - 1942; 1945-09 - Rosenberg - ; 1946 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/309912God the father supported by angels1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/274706Group of dancing and playing nude putti with bunch of grapes- Seilern, Antoine Count - 1946; - Woodburn, Samuel - 1860; 1810 - Fenwick, Thomas Fitzroy - ; 1828 - Phillipps, Thomas (Sir) - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/248118Hercules and the hydra (Ovid, Metamorphoses, IX, 69-74)1933 - Buttery -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/349Landscape with moon and stars1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/241097Martyrdom of Saint Lucy1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/241928Moses in prayer between Aaron and Hur (Exodus 17: 9-13)1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/242052Name of Mary1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/242074Pope Gregory the Great adoring the madonna1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/295613Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529)1632 - Rubens, Peter Paul - 1640; 1936 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/233154Portrait of Helena Fourment (1614-1673)1802 - De Cuypers de Reymenam, François Corneille Gislain - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/257637Portrait of Jan Brueghel I (1568-1625) and his family1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/259951Portrait of Jan van Montfort (1596-1649)1935 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/209667Portrait of William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh (?-1643) with his Indian servant-boy- Hamilton, James (1st Duke of Hamilton) - 1919; 1919 - Feilding (9th Earl of Denbigh 8th Earl of Desmond), Rudolph Edmund Aloysius - 1938-07-01; 1919 - art dealer - 1919; 1938 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 1945; 1945 - National Gallery (London) - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/309821Portrait of an unknown man1960 - Seilern, Antoine Count - ; 1978 - Courtauld Gallery - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/24651Portrait of emperor Charles V (1500-1558) in armor- Belosselsky, prins - 1936; 1936 - Seilern, Antoine Count - ; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/263400Rocky river landscape with ruinous bridge- Seilern, Antoine Count - 1946; 1946 - British Museum - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/308982Sacrifice to Venus in a temple1950-06-21 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/242061Saint Ambrose1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/240942Saint Anne and the Virgin1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/241995Saint Athanasius1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/241107Saint Augustine1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/240977Saint Basil- Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/242030Saint Catherine of Alexandria1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/241003Saint Cecilia1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/241025Saint Gregory of Nazianzus1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/24778Saint Gregory the great adoring the madonna- Mila, Paul - 1866; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/253725Saint Gregory, with Sts Maurus and Papianus; Saint Domitilla with Sts Nereus and Achilleus1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/241080Saint Jerome1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/303083Saint Jerome in his study- Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/242032Saint John Chrysostom1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/241179Saint Margaret1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/242016Saint Mary Magdalene1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/288722Seated man- Woodburn, Samuel - 1860; 1860 - Private collection - 1872; 1872 - Fenwick, mrs - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/288787Seated woman, knitting.- Woodburn, Samuel - 1860; 1860 - Private collection - 1872; 1872 - Fenwick, mrs - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/310038Six philosophers: Ptolemy, Thales, Abraham, Varro, Didymus and Crates1946 - British Museum -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/240421Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (I Kings 10: 1-13)1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/342091Studies for a bath of Diana- Morrison, General - 1807; 1940 - Eisemann, H. - 1941; 1941 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/311382Study for the figure of St Joseph1978 - Courtauld Gallery -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/341797Study of centaurs embracing- Phillips Fenwick, T. Fitzroy - 1946; - Woodburn, Samuel - 1860; 1860 - Phillipps, Thomas (Sir) - ; 1946 - Seilern, Antoine Count - ; 1978 - Courtauld Gallery - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/272448Study of the head of Hercules Farnese- Franklyn, L. - 1951; 1951 - Scharf, Alfred - ; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/266431The Last Judgement- Lawrence, Thomas (Sir) - 1835; 1835 - Woodburn, Samuel - 1860; 1860 - Phillipps, Thomas (Sir) - ; 1946 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/45388The Petronellakapel in De Bilt- Fitzroy Fenwick, Thomas - 1938; - Phillipps, Thomas (Sir) - 1872; - Seilern, Antoine Count - 1946; 1946 - British Museum - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/23367The Visitation- Giovanelli, prins - 1933; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/241910The adoration of the Magi (Gospel of Matthew 2:11)- Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/240774The ascension of Christ (Luke 24: 50-53)1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/67124The conversion of Saint Paul- Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz - 1806; 1838 - Alte Pinakothek - ; 1927 - Staatsgemäldesammlung Speyer - 1938; 1938 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 1953
https://data.rkd.nl/images/244644The creation of animals (Genesis I : 20-25)- Fitzroy Fenwick, Thomas - 1946; - Woodburn, Samuel - 1860; - Young Ottley, William - 1814; 1860 - Phillipps, Thomas (Sir) - ; 1946 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/342171The daughters of Cecrops find the serpent-shaped baby Erichthonius (Ovid, Metamorfoses II: 552-561)1897 - Nicolle, Marcel - 1953; 1953 - Seilern, Antoine Count - ; 1978 - Courtauld Gallery - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/250623The death of Achilles- Fourment, Daniël - 1643; - Fourment, Peter - 1653; - Infantado, hertog van - 1841
https://data.rkd.nl/images/277216The entombment1719 - Schönborn, Lothar Franz Graf von - 1729; 1953 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/240302The fall of the rebel angels (Book of Revelation 12: 7-9)1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/259911The flight into Egypt (Matthew 2:13-15)- Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/314199The interior of a picture gallery1934 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/241925The last supper (Matthew 26: 17-30)1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/240990The name of Jesus1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/240402The nativity (Gospel of Luke 2: 1-21)1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/276636The presentation in the temple (Luc. 2:22-38)1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/241942The prophet Elijah is carried up into heaven in a chariot with horses of fire in a whirlwind; his cloak falls to the ground and is picked up by Elisha (2 Kings 2:11-13)1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/310464The raising of Lazarus (John, 11: 1-45)1953 - Seilern, Antoine Count - ; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/240673The raising of the cross (Matthew 27: 31-37)1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/241933The resurrection of Christ (Matthew 28: 1-10)1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/241931The sacrifice of Abraham: An angel restraints Abraham from sacrifycing Isaac (Genesis 22:10-12)1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/24625The temptation of Christ in the desert (Matthew 4: 3-4)1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/241935The triumph of Joseph in Egypt (Genesis 41: 40-46)1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art -
https://data.rkd.nl/images/312203The triumph of Scipio Africanus1955 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Gallery - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/244666Three framed spaces intended to contain religious subjects- Fitzroy Fenwick, Thomas - 1946; - Woodburn, Samuel - 1860; - Young Ottley, William - 1814; 1860 - Phillipps, Thomas (Sir) - ; 1946 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/244645Three framed spaces intended to contain subjects from the Life of Christ- Fitzroy Fenwick, Thomas - 1946; - Woodburn, Samuel - 1860; - Young Ottley, William - 1814; 1860 - Phillipps, Thomas (Sir) - ; 1946 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/54396Virgin and Child- Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1937 - Seilern, Antoine Count - ; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 
https://data.rkd.nl/images/105889the adoration of the shepherds- Hartveld, Samuel - 1932; 1932 - Seilern, Antoine Count - 1978; 1978 - Courtauld Institute of Art - 

 


RKD  Sparql Query

https://rkd.triply.cc/rkd/RKD-Knowledge-Graph/sparql


PREFIX aat: <http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/>

PREFIX crm: <http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/>

PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>


SELECT ?artwork ?artworkLabel (GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT CONCAT(STR(?starttime), " - ",?collector_name, " - ", STR(?endtime)); separator = "; ") AS ?provenance) {

# Subquery to filter artworks by collector name

{

SELECT DISTINCT ?artwork WHERE {

?artwork

a crm:E22_Human-Made_Object;

crm:P2_has_type aat:300133025;

crm:P30i_custody_transferred_through [

a crm:E10_Transfer_of_Custody;

crm:P9i_forms_part_of ?prov;

crm:P29_custody_received_by/rdfs:label ?collector_name

].

FILTER(CONTAINS(LCASE(?collector_name), "seilern")) # Replace "specific_collector_string" with your filter string

}

}


# Outer query to get all provenance information for the filtered artworks

?artwork rdfs:label ?artworkLabel.

?artwork crm:P30i_custody_transferred_through [

a crm:E10_Transfer_of_Custody;

crm:P9i_forms_part_of ?prov;

crm:P29_custody_received_by/rdfs:label ?collector_name

].

?prov crm:P4_has_time-span ?timespan.

OPTIONAL {?timespan crm:P82a_begin_of_the_begin ?starttime.}

OPTIONAL {?timespan crm:P82b_end_of_the_end ?endtime.}

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GROUP BY ?artwork ?artworkLabel

ORDER BY ?artworkLabel


2. Collections Trust Spoliation Reports Search for Seilern

https://records.collectionstrust.org.uk/?s=Seilern&institute=

Anthony van Dyck

Description: William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh

Reference: NG5633

Questions in the operative period: {1} Date and details of acquisition by Feilding {2} Confirm sale to Roper {3} Date and details of acquisition by Seilern

Materials: Oil on canvas

Acquisition: Presented by Count Antoine Seilern, 1945

Dimensions: 247.5 x 148.5 cm

Provenance: William Rudolph Stephen Feilding, Warwickshire {1}; his sale Christie's, London, 1 July 1938; when bought by Colnaghi's (dealer), London. Arthur Roper, UK, 1938 {2}. Count Antoine Seilern, London {2, 3}; presented to the National Gallery by Count Antoine Seilern, 1945.

Institution: 

Part of: Paintings

Bison, Giuseppe Bernardino (1762-1844)

Description: Group of figures with Bacchus

Reference: D.1978.PG.147

Questions in the operative period: Under what circumstances was the Glaser collection sold?

Materials: Pen and ink & watercolour & chalk (red)

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Additional information: In September 2008 The Samuel Courtauld Trust referred a claim to the UK's Spoliation Advisory Panel for the restitution of this and seven other drawings in its collection. In its report of 24 June 2009 the Spoliation Advisory Panel recommended that the drawings should not be transferred to the claimants, and concluded that there were no grounds for criticism of Count Antoine Seilern or The Samuel Courtauld Trust, to whom Seilern bequeathed his collection in 1978. The Spoliation Advisory Panel's Report can be found at: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/publications/6236.aspx

Dimensions: 26.4 x 19.8

Provenance: Curt Glaser, sale, Max Perl, Berlin, 18-19 May 1933, No. 399where acquired by Seilern

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Bison, Giuseppe Bernardino (1762-1844)

Description: Flight into Egypt

Reference: D.1978.PG.148

Questions in the operative period: Under what circumstances was the Glaser collection sold?

Materials: Pen and ink & watercolour (brown)

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Additional information: In September 2008 The Samuel Courtauld Trust referred a claim to the UK's Spoliation Advisory Panel for the restitution of this and seven other drawings in its collection. In its report of 24 June 2009 the Spoliation Advisory Panel recommended that the drawings should not be transferred to the claimants, and concluded that there were no grounds for criticism of Count Antoine Seilern or The Samuel Courtauld Trust, to whom Seilern bequeathed his collection in 1978. The Spoliation Advisory Panel's Report can be found at: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/publications/6236.aspx

Dimensions: 23.7 x 18.2

Provenance: Curt Glaser, sale, Max Perl, Berlin, 18-19 May 1933, No. 400where acquired by Seilern

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906)

Description: Armchair (Fauteuil)

Reference: D.1978.PG.238

Questions in the operative period: Did Meller own this drawing from at least 1933 until 1937? If not, when and where had he acquired it? And is it correct that Seilern purchased it from him in 1937?

Materials: graphite, watercolour and bodycolour on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1976

Dimensions: 32.3 x 34.3 cm (uneven)

Provenance: Ambroise Vollard, Paris (1867-1939) [according to Seilern 1961]; Dr Simon Meller, Budapest and Paris (1875-1949); purchased from him by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 1937 [according to 1981 catalogue and repeated in publications thereafter, but no evidence for this and no provenance correspondence; and why was it then published in the 1964 catalogue of French paintings in Hungary?]; Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Corinth, Lovis (1858-1925)

Description: Centaurs embracing 1911

Reference: D.1978.PG.263

Questions in the operative period: Under what circumstances was the Glaser collection sold?

Materials: Graphite

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Additional information: In September 2008 The Samuel Courtauld Trust referred a claim to the UK's Spoliation Advisory Panel for the restitution of this and seven other drawings in its collection. In its report of 24 June 2009 the Spoliation Advisory Panel recommended that the drawings should not be transferred to the claimants, and concluded that there were no grounds for criticism of Count Antoine Seilern or The Samuel Courtauld Trust, to whom Seilern bequeathed his collection in 1978. The Spoliation Advisory Panel's Report can be found at: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/publications/6236.aspx

Dimensions: 48.3 x 33.4

Provenance: Curt Glaser, sale, Max Perl, Berlin, 18-19 May 1933, No.757where acquired by Seilern

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Crosato, Giovanni Battista (ca. 1697-1758)

Description: Saint Charles Borromeo

Reference: D.1978.PG.127

Questions in the operative period: Under what circumstances was the Glaser collection sold?

Materials: Pen and ink & watercolour & graphite

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Additional information: In September 2008 The Samuel Courtauld Trust referred a claim to the UK's Spoliation Advisory Panel for the restitution of this and seven other drawings in its collection. In its report of 24 June 2009 the Spoliation Advisory Panel recommended that the drawings should not be transferred to the claimants, and concluded that there were no grounds for criticism of Count Antoine Seilern or The Samuel Courtauld Trust, to whom Seilern bequeathed his collection in 1978. The Spoliation Advisory Panel's Report can be found at: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/publications/6236.aspx

Dimensions: 21 x 17.4

Provenance: Unknown Austrian (?) collection. Curt Glaser, sale, Max Perl, Berlin, 18-19 May 1933, No.443 where acquired by Seilern

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Italian School, 17th century

Description: Lamentation

Reference: D.1978.PG.114

Questions in the operative period: Under what circumstances was the Glaser collection sold?

Materials: Chalk (black) & pen and ink & watercolour

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Additional information: In September 2008 The Samuel Courtauld Trust referred a claim to the UK's Spoliation Advisory Panel for the restitution of this and seven other drawings in its collection. In its report of 24 June 2009 the Spoliation Advisory Panel recommended that the drawings should not be transferred to the claimants, and concluded that there were no grounds for criticism of Count Antoine Seilern or The Samuel Courtauld Trust, to whom Seilern bequeathed his collection in 1978. The Spoliation Advisory Panel's Report can be found at: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/publications/6236.aspx

Dimensions: 9 x 12.7 cm

Provenance: Curt Glaser collection, sale, Max Perl, Berlin, 18-19 May 1933, No. 535where acquired by Seilern.

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Piola, Domenico (1627-1703)

Description: Kitchen still-life

Reference: D.1978.PG.124

Questions in the operative period: Under what circumstances was the Glaser collection sold?

Materials: Pen and ink & chalk (black)

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Additional information: In September 2008 The Samuel Courtauld Trust referred a claim to the UK's Spoliation Advisory Panel for the restitution of this and seven other drawings in its collection. In its report of 24 June 2009 the Spoliation Advisory Panel recommended that the drawings should not be transferred to the claimants, and concluded that there were no grounds for criticism of Count Antoine Seilern or The Samuel Courtauld Trust, to whom Seilern bequeathed his collection in 1978. The Spoliation Advisory Panel's Report can be found at: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/publications/6236.aspx

Dimensions: 18 x 28.9 cm

Provenance: Curt Glaser, sale, Max Perl, Berlin, 18-19 May 1933, No. 483 (as Genoese 17th century)where acquired by Seilern

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Italian School, 18th century, formerly attributed to Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)

Description: Architectural sketch

Reference: D.1978.PG.142

Questions in the operative period: In September 2008 The Samuel Courtauld Trust referred a claim to the UK's Spoliation Advisory Panel for the restitution of this and seven other drawings in its collection. In its report of 24 June 2009 the Spoliation Advisory Panel recommended that the drawings should not be transferred to the claimants, and concluded that there were no grounds for criticism of Count Antoine Seilern or The Samuel Courtauld Trust, to whom Seilern bequeathed his collection in 1978. The Spoliation Advisory Panel's Report is attached (another copy in the file). An appeal was lodged in 2020 and denied by the Panel on the grounds of no new evidence presented.

Materials: black chalk, graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper; some brown ink marks on verso (T-shape and circular shape)

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 21.8 x 24 cm

Provenance: Dr Curt Glaser, Berlin (1879-1943); his sale, Max Perl (Berlin), 18-19 May 1933, lot 473 (as by Domenico Fossati); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest 1978.

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

Description: Conversion of Saint Paul

Reference: D.1978.PG.57

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink, brown wash and white bodycolour on two sheets of laid paper, joined at the centre and laid down (presumably by Seilern), with another two fragments of paper adhered on top of the right sheet

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 22.2 x 33.1 cm

Provenance: Left half: possibly J. P. Happart, Antwerp (in his 1686 inventory); Prosper Henry Lankrink, London (1628-1692), L.2090; Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792), L.2364; Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830), L.2445; ceded by his executors to Samuel Woodburn (London), 1835; Woodburn estate sale, Christie's (London), 16 - 27 June 1854, lot 1736 (as Van Dyck); must have been bought in? as appears again in Woodburn estate sale, Christie's (London), 4 - 8 June 1860, lot 353 (as Van Dyck); purchased there by Money? [name annotated in catalogue unclear]; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1940; acquired there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), in exchange for a drawing of an Angel of the Annunciation by Fra Bartolommeo, 28 October 1953; Princes Gate Bequest 1978Right half: possibly J. P. Happart, Antwerp (in his 1686 inventory); Prosper Henry Lankrink, London (1628-1692), L.2090; Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792), L.2364; Mathey (Paris), around 1939-1943; C.G. Boerner (Leipzig), 30 March - 1 April 1943, lot 124; purchased there by Dr Grote, East Germany; anonymous owner; purchased from him by C.G. Boerner (Düsseldorf) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 30 September 1952 (DM 2450); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Renoir, Pierre Auguste (1841-1919)

Description: Laundresses

Reference: D.1978.PG.243

Questions in the operative period: Under what circumstances was the Glaser collection sold?

Materials: Graphite & pen and ink

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Additional information: In September 2008 The Samuel Courtauld Trust referred a claim to the UK's Spoliation Advisory Panel for the restitution of this and seven other drawings in its collection. In its report of 24 June 2009 the Spoliation Advisory Panel recommended that the drawings should not be transferred to the claimants, and concluded that there were no grounds for criticism of Count Antoine Seilern or The Samuel Courtauld Trust, to whom Seilern bequeathed his collection in 1978. The Spoliation Advisory Panel's Report can be found at: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/publications/6236.aspx

Dimensions: 31.4 x 22.5 cm

Provenance: Curt Glaser, sale, Max Perl, Berlin, 18-19 May 1933 (1261a) where acquired by Seilern

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

Description: The Conversion of St. Paul (sketch)

Reference: P.1978.PG.356

Materials: Oil on panel

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978.

Additional information: On 31 October 2000 a claim was submitted for the restitution of this painting. This claim was substantially based on facts presented to the Dutch Government's Advisory Committee on the Assessment of Restitution Applications for Items of Cultural Value and the Second World War (Restitution Committee). In December 2003 the Restitution Committee advised the Dutch State Secretary of Education, Culture and Science to reject the claim. In the light of these findings, and based upon research undertaken by the Courtauld Gallery, the Samuel Courtauld Trustees followed the conclusion of the Dutch Restitution Committee and rejected the claim. In 2007 the Courtauld referred the case to the Spoliation Advisory Panel, whose recommendations were published in November of that year. The Panel concluded decisively that Count Antoine Seilern, who subsequently donated his collection to the Courtauld, had acquired the paintings in legitimate circumstances, and recommended that the claim be rejected, stating in its concluding remarks, that we consider it right to record our opinion that no criticism attaches to the Courtauld in respect of the manner and circumstances of its acceptance of the bequest of these paintings. In our view the Courtauld had no occasion to question the title of Count Seilern or the moral propriety of his acquisition of the paintings.

Dimensions: 57.4 x 80.2 cm

Provenance: Koenigs collection, Haarlem,Lisser and Rosenkranz Bank, Amsterdam,on consignment with Jacques Goudstikker,from whom acquired by Seilern in April/May 1940.

Institution: 

Part of: Paintings

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

Description: The Bounty of James I triumphing over Avarice

Reference: P.1978.PG.377

Materials: Oil on panel

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978.

Additional information: On 31 October 2000 a claim was submitted for the restitution of this painting. This claim was substantially based on facts presented to the Dutch Government's Advisory Committee on the Assessment of Restitution Applications for Items of Cultural Value and the Second World War (Restitution Committee). In December 2003 the Restitution Committee advised the Dutch State Secretary of Education, Culture and Science to reject the claim. In the light of these findings, and based upon research undertaken by the Courtauld Gallery, the Samuel Courtauld Trustees followed the conclusion of the Dutch Restitution Committee and rejected the claim. In 2007 the Courtauld referred the case to the Spoliation Advisory Panel, whose recommendations were published in November of that year. The Panel concluded decisively that Count Antoine Seilern, who subsequently donated his collection to the Courtauld, had acquired the paintings in legitimate circumstances, and recommended that the claim be rejected, stating in its concluding remarks, that we consider it right to record our opinion that no criticism attaches to the Courtauld in respect of the manner and circumstances of its acceptance of the bequest of these paintings. In our view the Courtauld had no occasion to question the title of Count Seilern or the moral propriety of his acquisition of the paintings.

Dimensions: 46.2 x 30.8 cm

Provenance: Koenigs collection, Haarlem,Lisser and Rosenkranz Bank, Amsterdam, on consignment with Jacques Goudstikker, from whom acquired by Seilern in April/May 1940.

Institution: 

Part of: Paintings

Correggio, Antonio Allegri (c. 1489-1534)

Description: Putto blowing a pipe (recto), Sketch of a hand (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.353

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: red chalk on red-prepared laid paper, cut out around figure's silhouette and inlaid by Seilern into another sheet of red-prepared laid paper (recto), red chalk on laid paper (verso, which has no red preparation)

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 17.7 x 15.4 cm

Provenance: Helene de Beer, London (1898-1984); purchased from her by Colnaghi (London), 5 May 1960; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 23 May 1960 (£200); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Jongkind, Johan Barthold (1819-1891)

Description: Nivernais landscape with a figure and cart

Reference: D.1978.PG.412

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: synthetic black chalk and watercolour (recto), synthetic black chalk (verso) on laid paper [no charcoal or graphite evident under microscope])

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 29.5 x 47.6 cm

Provenance: Mrs Erszi Ferenczy, Budapest (c. 1904-2000) by April 1961 [date of first correspondence from Lessner to Seilern regarding the drawing]; purchased from her via Franz Lessner, Vienna, by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), March 1964 (£1,000); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669)

Description: Two men in discussion

Reference: D.1978.PG.190

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink, white bodycolour on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines trimmed away at the right edge; the upper and lower left corners, large section at left central edge, and small sections of central upper and lower edges made up (according to William Clarke, former Courtauld conservator, the right edge was trimmed to make up the damaged left edge)

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 22.9 x 18.5 cm

Provenance: private collection, France; by descent to a Mrs O'Rooney, Ireland (according to a letter from de Bayser, in file); Otto Wertheimer, Galerie les Tourettes (Paris) (according to Benesch, but Seilern says this is erroneous based on the information provided by de Bayser; but perhaps the French family and/or Mrs O'Rooney first had the drawing on consignment with Wertheimer before de Bayser?); acquired from Mrs O'Rooney by Galerie de Bayser (Paris); purchased there via Arthur Goldschmidt (Paris) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 21 October 1952 (1,500 francs); Princes Gate Bequest

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669), workshop of

Description: Christ and two disciples arriving at Emmaus

Reference: D.1978.PG.194

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink, brown wash, touches of white bodycolour, touches of graphite (added later?) on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down on a historic mount with gold and brown ink borders

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 23.2 x 21.3 cm

Provenance: Arthur Pond, London (c.1705-1758), variant of L.2038; John Barnard, London (1709-1784), L.1419 and L.1420; Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792), L.2364; William Esdaile, London (1758-1837), L.2617; Dr Josef Winter, Vienna (1857-1916); Frederik Muller & Cie (Amsterdam), 1908 (? Seilern queried this in his catalogue, unclear where the information originated and why he questioned it); on consignment with Schaeffer Galleries (New York) by November 1954; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 19 February 1957 ($8,000); Princes Gate Bequest 1952

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Savery, Jacob, I (ca. 1545-1620), attributed to; formerly attributed to Pieter Bruegel, the elder (1525/30-1569)

Description: Rocky landscape with a castle

Reference: D.1978.PG.12

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Additional information: The identification of the individuals in this provenance is currently only speculative. Colnaghi's archive books testify that they acquired the drawing from a "Mrs Frohlich", and prior to her, the drawing belonged to the "Coll: Eisler". Seilern clarified in his 1955 catalogue that this collection was in Vienna, and added that this drawing had also been in Heseltine's 1913 sale. As a Rembrandt drawing, now in Washington, was purchased at the same Heseltine sale by an "H. Eissler, Vienna", it seems likely that Colnaghi simply omitted an 's' in their spelling of the name and the previous owner may have been Hermann Eissler of Vienna. A 1913 dictionary of Viennese art collectors lists a few 'Frohlichs' but Otto Frohlich, who owned a gallery, seems a potential candidate to have purchased this drawing from Eissler. Otto's wife was named Valerie, is this the "Mrs Frohlich" referred to by Colnaghi?

Dimensions: 14.6 x 19.2 cm

Provenance: John Postle Heseltine, London (1843-1929); his sale, Frederik Muller et Cie. (Amsterdam) 27-28 May 1913, lot 70; likely purchased there by Hermann Eissler, Vienna (1860-1953); Mrs (Valerie?) Frohlich; purchased from her by Colnaghi (London), 3 November 1951; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978), 3 November 1951 (£750); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista (1696-1770)

Description: Allegory of Hope

Reference: D.1978.PG.150

Questions in the operative period: Was this foreign nobleman in fact Prince Trivulzio, and had he owned the drawing since at least 1933 before selling it in July 1937?

Materials: black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Additional information: We contacted Sotheby's in September 2005, and they responded that as the sale was so long ago they had no further information on the identity of this nobleman, other than the name of the consignor, 'Pollak and Winternitz'. Count Seilern recorded in his 1959 Italian paintings catalogue that Byam Shaw had verbally informed him that this nobleman was 'probably Prince Trivulzio' (page 124).

Dimensions: 25.6 x 18.5 cm

Provenance: possibly given by the artist’s son Domenico to Johann Dominik Bossi, Munich (1767-1853); by descent to his daughter Maria Theresa Caroline (1825-1881) and her husband, Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen (1826-1881); their estate sale, H.G. Gutekunst (Stuttgart), 27 March 1882; a 'foreign nobleman', possibly Prince Trivulzio, whose property was consigned by Pollak and Winternitz (Vienna) to Sotheby's (London), 13 July 1937, lot 52; purchased there by Dr Alfred Scharf, London (1900-1965), presumably on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista (1696-1770)

Description: Bacchus

Reference: D.1978.PG.160

Questions in the operative period: Was this foreign nobleman in fact Prince Trivulzio, and had he owned the drawing since at least 1933 before selling it in July 1937?

Materials: red and white chalk with stumping on blue laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Additional information: We contacted Sotheby's in September 2005, and they responded that as the sale was so long ago they had no further information on the identity of this nobleman, other than the name of the consignor, 'Pollak and Winternitz'. Count Seilern recorded in his 1959 Italian paintings catalogue that Byam Shaw had verbally informed him that this nobleman was 'probably Prince Trivulzio' (page 124).

Dimensions: 33.8 x 28.4 cm (very uneven)

Provenance: possibly given by the artist’s son Domenico to Johann Dominik Bossi, Munich (1767-1853); by descent to his daughter Maria Theresa Caroline (1825-1881) and her husband, Carl Christian Friedrich Beyerlen (1826-1881); their estate sale, H.G. Gutekunst (Stuttgart), 27 March 1882; purchased there by Galerie-Inspektor Kräutle; a 'foreign nobleman', possibly Prince Trivulzio, whose property was consigned by Pollak and Winternitz (Vienna) to Sotheby's (London), 13 July 1937, lot 62; purchased there by Dr Alfred Scharf, London (1900-1965) presumably on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico (1727-1804), attributed to

Description: Goddess seated on clouds

Reference: D.1978.PG.166

Questions in the operative period: Was this nobleman in fact Prince Trivulzio, and had he owned it since at least 1933 before selling it in July 1937?

Materials: red and white chalk on blue laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Additional information: We contacted Sotheby's in September 2005, and they responded that as the sale was so long ago they had no further information on the identity of this nobleman, other than the name of the consignor, 'Pollak and Winternitz'. Count Seilern recorded in his 1959 Italian paintings catalogue that Byam Shaw had verbally informed him that this nobleman was 'probably Prince Trivulzio' (page 124).

Dimensions: 27.1 x 24.2 cm

Provenance: a 'foreign nobleman', possibly Prince Trivulzio, whose property was consigned by Pollak and Winternitz (Vienna) to Sotheby's (London), 13 July 1937, lot 53; purchased there by Dr Alfred Scharf, London (1900-1965), presumably on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Leu 321a

Description: St Jerome in wilderness, **

Questions in the operative period: history before 1948?

Materials: pen and black ink

Acquisition: purchased from Seilern 1948

Dimensions: 253:209

Provenance: no known history before Seilern

Institution: 

Part of: Uncategorized

Bassano, Jacopo (ca. 1510-1592) (Jacopo da Ponte)

Description: Gondolier

Reference: D.1978.PG.98

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Chalk (black and red)

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 36.8 x 21.5

Provenance: John Bayley. Robert Crozier, President of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts. A. G. B. Russell, sale, Sotheby's, 9 June 1955, No.11where acquired through Colnaghi by Seilern

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Bison, Giuseppe Bernardino (1762-1844)

Description: Landscape with leaning tree

Reference: D.1978.PG.390

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and grey ink and grey wash on laid paper prepared with a light grey wash, laid down on a historic mount

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 20.7 x 23.1 cm

Provenance: Mrs L. Frohlich; purchased from her by Colnaghi (London), 4 August 1961; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 22 November 1961 (£75); Princes Gates Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Bosch, Hieronymous (ca. 1450-1516), formerly attributed to

Description: Saint Christopher (recto), Sketch of decorative scroll (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.178

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk, pen and brown ink (recto), pen and brown ink (verso) on laid paper, all four corners cut

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 17.1 x 12.8 cm

Provenance: Marquis Charles de Valori, Paris (1820-1883), L.2500; Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 14 July 1958 (£1200).; Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Boscoli, Andrea (1550-1606), formerly attributed to Francesco Vanni (1563-1610)

Description: Young girl plaiting her hair

Reference: D.1978.PG.104

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk on laid paper with brown ink framing lines mostly trimmed away, laid down on Seilern mount

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 16.5 x 10.9 cm

Provenance: Modesto Ignazio Bonaventura Luigi Genevosio, Turin (1719-1795), L.545 (lower right); Mrs Eugenia Zarnowska, Paris; purchased from her by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), October 1952 (35,000 francs); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Bruegel, the elder, Pieter (1525/30-1569)

Description: A storm on the River Schelde with a view of Antwerp

Reference: D.1978.PG.11

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1935?

Materials: graphite, pen and brown ink, reworked in areas in graphite and grey ink, on laid paper, laid down, with remnants of a brown ink framing line on the left edge

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 20.3 x 30 cm

Provenance: Sir Bruce Stirling Ingram (1877-1963); Dr Alfred Scharf, London (1900-1965); acquired from him by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 1935; Princes Gate Bequest, 1978 (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Government and presented to the Home House Society, now the Samuel Courtauld Trust, 1981)

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906)

Description: Madame Hortense Fiquet sewing

Reference: D.1978.PG.239

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933 and July 1938?

Materials: graphite on laid paper, laid down on a paper support

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 47.4 x 31 cm

Provenance: Ambroise Vollard, Paris (1867-1939); Dr Simon Meller, Budapest, Munich and Paris (1875-1949) [see fax in file]; Paul Cassirer (Berlin), 1933 [according to online catalogue]; H. von Simolin, Berlin [according to online catalogue]; Paul Cassirer (Amsterdam), by July 1938 [when exhibited]; Paul Cassirer (London), 9 February 1941 [according to 2012 catalogue]; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 15 February 1941; Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906)

Description: Statue under trees c.1895-99

Reference: D.1978.PG.240

Questions in the operative period: When did Clark acquire the drawing and from whom?

Materials: Graphite

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 48.2 x 31.3

Provenance: Sir Kenneth Clark, Londonfrom whom acquired by Seilern in 1941

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Lorrain, Claude (1604-1682)

Description: Pastoral scene in a clearing (recto), Study of a tree (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.416

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Pen and ink and watercolour

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 20 x 28.7

Provenance: Jonathan Richardson Snr.F. Keppel, dealer, New York, 1915Ruth Heidsieck, sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 12 May 1960, No. 8 (or 85?)Where acquired by Marcel Röthlisbergerfrom whom acquired by Seilern in October 1961

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Lorrain, Claude (1604-1682)

Description: Clump of trees 1650

Reference: D.1978.PG.417

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Chalk (black) & wash (brown)

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 22 x 30.8

Provenance: Charles Morin? New York art market, c.1960; Acquired by the London dealer Herbert N. Bier, together with Dr A Scharf in May 1962, from whom acquired by Seilern on 23 January 1963

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Lorrain, Claude (1604-1682), attributed to

Description: Study of a tree

Reference: D.1978.PG.216

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Graphite & bodycolour

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Additional information: -

Dimensions: 38.7 x 24.2

Provenance: Sir Thomas Lawrence; William Esdaile, sale, Christie's, Part V, 30 June 1840, No.5 (?); W. Benoni White; Sir Edward Poynter. P. P. Matthiesen Ltd, Londonfrom whom acquired by Seilern in May 1946

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Correggio, Antonio Allegri (c. 1489-1534)

Description: Christ seated on a cloud - a study for 'The Coronation of the Virgin'

Reference: D.1978.PG.352

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: red chalk on laid paper, squared in red chalk, tracing over pen and ink lines that have been drawn on the verso and are showing through; laid down on Richardson's red wash mount

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 16 x 13.4 cm

Provenance: Jonathan Richardson, the elder, London (1665-1745), L.2184, L.2995 and L.2983; George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834), L.1532; Lord David Cecil (1902-1986); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 1 July 1965, lot 154; purchased there via Colnaghi by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£3,675); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863)

Description: Sheet with two studies of a female nude

Reference: D.1978.PG.234

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Graphite

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 25.7 x 38.4

Provenance: Sale of the contents of the artist's studio after his death, Paris, 17-29 February 1864Acquired by Seilern c.1954

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863)

Description: Two branches with leaves

Reference: D.1978.PG.235

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Pen and ink & watercolour

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 25.3 x 39.2

Provenance: Sale of the contents of the artist's studio after his death, Paris, 17-29 February 1864Acquired by Seilern from de Bayser, Paris, through Arthur Goldschmidt, October 1953

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863)

Description: Moroccan Jewess

Reference: D.1978.PG.419

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: 26.8 x 19.6

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: Watercolour

Provenance: Charles F. Worel, Londonfrom whom acquired by Seilern in December 1964

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Delacroix, Eugène (1798-1863)

Description: Copy of the child from Rubens' 'La Vierge au Perroquet'

Reference: D.1978.PG.420

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Graphite

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 27.5 x 19.2

Provenance: Estate of the artistH. Larraine, IndochinaJohn Rewald, sale, Sotheby's, 7 July 1960, No.28where acquired through Colnaghi by Seilern

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Della Bella, Stefano (1610-1664)

Description: Man on horseback flanked by other men

Reference: D.1978.PG.118.1

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on paper support, verso prepared with black chalk apparently only behind the two men at right (no evidence of incised lines)

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 5.2 x 8.8 cm

Provenance: John Elliott Huxtable (1865-1949); his estate sale, Sotheby’s (London), 13 July 1949, lot 49 (12 drawings by Della Bella); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£13 for all 12 drawings); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Della Bella, Stefano (1610-1664)

Description: Card players and figure studies

Reference: D.1978.PG.118.2

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on paper support, verso prepared with black chalk apparently only behind the two groups at sides (no evidence of incised lines)

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 10.3 x 5.5 cm

Provenance: John Elliott Huxtable (1865-1949); his estate sale, Sotheby’s (London), 13 July 1949, lot 49 (12 drawings by Della Bella); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£13 for all 12 drawings); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Della Bella, Stefano (1610-1664)

Description: Men playing bowls

Reference: D.1978.PG.118.3

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on paper support

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 5.5 x 10.7 cm

Provenance: John Elliott Huxtable (1865-1949); his estate sale, Sotheby’s (London), 13 July 1949, lot 49 (12 drawings by Della Bella); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£13 for all 12 drawings); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Della Bella, Stefano (1610-1664)

Description: Men playing bowls

Reference: D.1978.PG.120.1

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on paper support

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 5.5 x 4.9 cm

Provenance: John Elliott Huxtable (1865-1949); his estate sale, Sotheby’s (London), 13 July 1949, lot 49 (12 drawings by Della Bella); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£13 for all 12 drawings); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Della Bella, Stefano (1610-1664)

Description: Peasant woman seen from behind carrying a basket on her head

Reference: D.1978.PG.120.2

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on paper support

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 6 x 4.7 cm

Provenance: John Elliott Huxtable (1865-1949); his estate sale, Sotheby’s (London), 13 July 1949, lot 49 (12 drawings by Della Bella); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£13 for all 12 drawings); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Della Bella, Stefano (1610-1664)

Description: Soldier seen in profile, carrying a pike over his shoulder, walking towards the right

Reference: D.1978.PG.120.3

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on paper support

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 7 x 5.2 cm

Provenance: John Elliott Huxtable (1865-1949); his estate sale, Sotheby’s (London), 13 July 1949, lot 49 (12 drawings by Della Bella); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£13 for all 12 drawings); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Della Bella, Stefano (1610-1664)

Description: Soldier standing with a pike, looking over his right shoulder

Reference: D.1978.PG.120.4

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on paper support

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 7 x 5.4 cm

Provenance: John Elliott Huxtable (1865-1949); his estate sale, Sotheby’s (London), 13 July 1949, lot 49 (12 drawings by Della Bella); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£13 for all 12 drawings); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Della Bella, Stefano (1610-1664)

Description: Man seen in profile from his left side, standing with his arms behind his back (formerly just 'A man facing to the left')

Reference: D.1978.PG.120.5

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on paper support

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 6.3 x 4.8 cm

Provenance: John Elliott Huxtable (1865-1949); his estate sale, Sotheby’s (London), 13 July 1949, lot 49 (12 drawings by Della Bella); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£13 for all 12 drawings); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Della Bella, Stefano (1610-1664)

Description: A cleric and a man in conversation

Reference: D.1978.PG.120.6

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on paper support

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 6.3 x 5.5 cm

Provenance: John Elliott Huxtable (1865-1949); his estate sale, Sotheby’s (London), 13 July 1949, lot 49 (12 drawings by Della Bella); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£13 for all 12 drawings); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Part of: Drawings

Della Bella, Stefano (1610-1664)

Description: Figure study - figures in a large wheelbarrow

Reference: D.1978.PG.123.1

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on paper support, with pen trials in a different ink

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 7.6 x 9.1 cm

Provenance: John Elliott Huxtable (1865-1949); his estate sale, Sotheby’s (London), 13 July 1949, lot 49 (12 drawings by Della Bella); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£13 for all 12 drawings); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Part of: Drawings

Della Bella, Stefano (1610-1664)

Description: Figure study - two standing figures seen from behind

Reference: D.1978.PG.123.2

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on paper support; some red chalk offset at lower centre edge

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 9.3 x 9.2 cm

Provenance: John Elliott Huxtable (1865-1949); his estate sale, Sotheby’s (London), 13 July 1949, lot 49 (12 drawings by Della Bella); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£13 for all 12 drawings); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Part of: Drawings

Della Bella, Stefano (1610-1664)

Description: Figure study - two standing figures seen from behind

Reference: D.1978.PG.123.3

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on paper support

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 10.8 x 10.1 cm

Provenance: John Elliott Huxtable (1865-1949); his estate sale, Sotheby’s (London), 13 July 1949, lot 49 (12 drawings by Della Bella); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£13 for all 12 drawings); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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van Dyck, Anthony (1559-1641)

Description: Saint Mary Magdalene

Reference: D.1978.PG.328

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black and white chalk on blue laid paper with brown ink framing lines, laid down

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 27.9 x 22 cm

Provenance: possibly unidentified collector's mark; De Beer Fine Art (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 25 March 1963 (£600); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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van Dyck, Anthony (1559-1641)

Description: Christ on the Cross with Mary Magdalene (recto), Landscape (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.329

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink (recto and verso) on paper)

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 27.5 x 19.6 cm

Provenance: Colnaghi ( London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 17 February 1965 (£900); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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van Dyck, Anthony (1559-1641)

Description: Sheet of studies after Giulio Romano

Reference: D.1978.PG.393

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down on a support

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 21.3 x 15.2 cm

Provenance: Pierre-Jean Mariette, Paris (1694-1774), L.2097; possibly his estate estate sale, Basan (Paris), 15 November 1775 - 30 January 1776, part of lot 914; if so, purchased there by Lenoir (Paris) (47.19 francs); Yvonne Tan Bunzl (London); purchased from her by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 14 July 1969 (£4,050); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640), circle of

Description: Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Reference: D.1978.PG.327

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash, heightened with white chalk, on laid paper, laid down on a historic mount

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 37.8 x 27.9 cm

Provenance: Pierre Crozat, Paris (1661-1740); his estate sale; Mariette (Paris), 10 April - 13 May 1741, lot 823 (with 10 other items, as Rubens); Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, Paris (1680-1765), L.2951; his estate sale P. Rémy (Paris), 18 - 28 January 1779, lot 542 (as Rubens); M. Nourri; his sale, Folliot Delalande (Paris), 24 February - 14 March 1785, lot 845 (as Rubens), sold for 50 frs.; Adolphe Stein, Paris (1913-2002); purchased from him by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), November 1967 (£1500); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Fragonard, Jean Honore (1732-1806)

Description: La Résignée - the artist's daughter, Rosalie (?) 1785

Reference: D.1978.PG.229

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-December 1936? When did Baron Vitta acquire this drawing?

Materials: Chalk (red)

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 22.5 x 17.2

Provenance: Pierre Decourcelle, sale, Paris, Georges Petit, 29-30 May 1911, No. 89. E. M. Hodgkins sale, Paris, Georges Petit, 30 April 1914, No. 26. Sotheby's, 9 December 1936, No. 50 (Vendor: Baron Vitta ) where acquired by Dufoisfrom whom acquired by Seilern that year.

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Fragonard, Jean Honore (1732-1806)

Description: Shaded Walk ('L'Allée Ombreuse') 1775-80

Reference: D.1978.PG.230

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Watercolour & graphite

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 16.6 x 14.9

Provenance: E. Rodrigues (Lugt 897). Jacques Guérin, sale, 20 December 1922 (No.56, as H. Robert). Albert Henraux. Tony Mayer, Paris, sale, Charpentier, 3 December 1957, No.3 where acquired through Arthur Goldschmidt by Seilern

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French School, 18th century, formerly attributed to Watteau

Description: Nymph - after Giulio Romano

Reference: D.1978.PG.225

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Graphite & chalk (red)

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 22 x 22.7

Provenance: David Carritt, Londonfrom whom acquired by Seilern in December 1952

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Goes, Hugo van der (ca. 1440-1482), workshop of

Description: Seated female saint

Reference: D.1978.PG.314

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933 and 1935?

Materials: black chalk, pen, point of the brush and grey ink, white bodycolour, on green prepared laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 23 x 18.9 cm

Provenance: an Italian collection, 18th century (based on verso inscription); private collection, France (according to Friedländer 1935); Ludwig Rosenthal, later known as Lewis V. Randall, Berne then Montreal (1893-1972), by 1935; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 10 May 1961, lot 4; purchased there via Colnaghi (London) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£30,000); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Goya y Lucientes, Francisco Jose de (1746-1828)

Description: Page from a sketchbook - Cantar y bailar

Reference: D.1978.PG.256

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Graphite & pen and ink & watercolour

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 23.4 x 14.5

Provenance: E. Calando, sale, Paris (Roblin), 11 December 1899, No. 75A. Goldschmidtfrom whom acquired by Seilern in March 1953

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Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793)

Description: Peasants dancing (recto), Boats and a figure (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.134

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash (recto), black chalk, pen and brown ink (verso) on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 24.6 x 17.8 cm

Provenance: C.A. Earnshaw, London; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 4 August 1949; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 23 August 1949 (£80); Princes Gate Bequest 1978 

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Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793)

Description: Saint Mark

Reference: D.1978.PG.135

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Graphite & brush and ink

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 27 x 25.8 cm

Provenance: The Archbishop of Belluno, sold Ongania, Venice, 1878Count WodinskiMr RitchieColnaghi, Londonfrom whom acquired by Seilern in May 1950

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Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793)

Description: Archway with figures

Reference: D.1978.PG.136

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1935?

Materials: red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 35.1 x 26.8 cm

Provenance: Adrien Fauchier Magnan (1873-1963); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 4 December 1935, lot 24; Frank Partridge & Sons (London and New York); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 14 October 1941 (£400); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793)

Description: Landscape capriccio

Reference: D.1978.PG.137.1

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey (with black particles) wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 12.6 x 7.4 cm

Provenance: Sir Algernon Peyton (1889-1962); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 25 July 1951, lot 2; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 14 December 1951 (£90, with D.1978.PG.137.1); Princes Gate Bequest

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Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793)

Description: Landscape capriccio

Reference: D.1978.PG.137.2

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey (with black particles) wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 12.5 x 7.2 cm

Provenance: Sir Algernon Peyton (1889-1962); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 25 July 1951, lot 2; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 14 December 1951 (£90, with D.1978.PG.137.1); Princes Gate Bequest

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Part of: Drawings

British Museum

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…acquired since 1933 have an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the 1933-1945 period. An important group of around 1,470 drawings from the Phillipps-Fenwick collection presented by Count Antoine Seilern through…

Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793)

Description: Feast of Ascension Day

Reference: D.1978.PG.138

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 19.7 x 39.1 cm

Provenance: E. Warneck; by descent to his wife; their estate sale, Drouot (Paris), 10-11 May 1905, lot 177; Paul Émile Marius Paulme, Paris (1863-1928), L.1910; his estate sale, Georges Petit (Paris), 13 May 1929, lot 100; purchased there by Richard Owen (Paris); Mrs A.L. Sinsheimer, New York (according to Knoedler); H.M. Chapman, New York; given by him on consignment to M. Knoedler & Co. (New York), December 1947 (inventory number CA 2969 on former label now in object file); returned unsold to H.M. Chapman via Carstairs Gallery (New York), February 1949 (see letter from Knoedler in object file); A. & R. Ball (New York); purchased there via Arthur Goldschmidt (Paris dealer) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 27 April 1950 ($3,000); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793) (recto), Guardi, Giacomo (1764-1835) (verso?)

Description: Bull baiting (recto), Study of arches (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.139

Questions in the operative period: When/where did Christopher Norris acquire the drawing? His letter makes it clear that he did not acquire it directly from Langton Douglas, only that he had seen the drawing in his house in 1935. Therefore unclear provenance between 1933-35 and again from 1935-40.

Materials: pen and brown ink, brown wash (recto), black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash, executed using a compass, with brown ink framing lines on the left and right edges (verso), on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 16.9 x 28.6 cm

Provenance: Ferdinand Cavendish-Bentinck, 8th Duke of Portland (1889-1980) (according to Christopher Norris); Robert Langton Douglas (1864-1951), by 1935 (seen there by Christopher Norris, though he wasn't sure Douglas owned it); Christopher Norris, Polesden Lacey, Dorking, Surrey (1907-1987) (his letter in object file); presumably purchased from him via Dr Alfred Scharf, London (1900-1965) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 20 February 1940 (£157.10); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793)

Description: Scenes of bull-baiting

Reference: D.1978.PG.140

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: red chalk, pen and brown ink, touches of brown bodycolour (on dog at left), on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 16 x 30.6 cm

Provenance: Vernon Wethered (1865-1952); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 20 January 1954; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 9 February 1954 (£450); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793)

Description: Lagoon capriccio (recto), Sketch of an arch (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.141

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash and white bodycolour on laid paper prepared with a brown wash, with brown ink framing lines (recto), black chalk, pen and brown ink (verso)

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 14.3 x 18.8 cm

Provenance: George Guy, Earl of Warwick (1818-1893) (according to Colnaghi, though no collector's mark present, and not listed in his 1896 estate sale catalogue); Frances L. Evans (d. 1972), by 1952 (when she lent it to the RA exhibition); purchased from her by Colnaghi (London), 15 April 1955; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 23 April 1955 (£250); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793)

Description: River scene with a bridge

Reference: D.1978.PG.388

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 22.5 x 36.6 cm

Provenance: Wouters Collection sale? (note by Seilern in file but he misspelled the name and attempted to correct it, rendering it unclear; the drawing does not appear in the 1801 sale catalogue of Pierre Wouters); anonymous sale, Frederik Muller & Cie (Amsterdam), 5-6 July 1927, Part II, lot 218; anonymous sale, Christie's (London), 7 July 1959, lot 15 (according to Seilern) or lot 24 (according to Colnaghi); purchased there via Colnaghi (London) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 8 July 1959 (£840); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793)

Description: Venetian scene

Reference: D.1978.PG.389

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk, pen and brown ink, framed on the left in graphite and the right in brown ink, on laid paper, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 25.1 x 8.4 cm

Provenance: possibly William Benoni White, London (d. c. 1878), L.2592 (though mark does not match its description in Lugt, and drawing does not appear in White's 1880 sale catalogue, though could have been in a lot of miscellaneous drawings); Mertz. (? unidentified as of yet, unclear name recorded in Colnaghi archive book); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 20 May 1960; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 27 June 1960 (£400); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793)

Description: Macchiette

Reference: D.1978.PG.403

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, with a strong horizontal fold across the centre; the verso has a perforated semi-circle, executed with a compass

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 16.1 x 10.8 cm

Provenance: François de Gouy d'Arsy (1883-1941); then to his partner, with whom he shared a property in France, Russell Greeley (1878-1956); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 26 June 1969, lot 7; purchased there via Colnaghi (London) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£750); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Italian School, 17th century (Venice)

Description: Seated man seen from behind

Reference: D.1978.PG.368

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Chalk (black)

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 28.9 x 19.7

Provenance: Sir Joshua ReynoldsP. Huart? (Lugt 2084)Vicomte B. d'Hendecourt, sale, Sotheby's, 8 May 1929, No. 294,Savile Gallery, LondonC. R. Rudolf (Lugt Suppl., 2811b on the mount), sale, Sotheby's, 21 May 1963 (14),where acquired through Colnaghi by Seilern

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Italian School, 18th century, formerly attributed to Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1700)

Description: Hermit seated under a tree

Reference: D.1978.PG.379

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 30.3 x 26.2 cm

Provenance: Paul Prouté (Paris); purchased there by Colnaghi (London), 30 May 1961; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978), 6 July 1961 (£2,000); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Libri, Francesco dai, the elder (1452-1502/14); formerly Butinone, Bernardino (c. 1450-before 1510)

Description: The Entombment

Reference: D.1978.PG.346

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink, watercolour and bodycolour on parchment, with added gold leaf borders, laid down on modern mount

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 16.6 x 11.8 cm

Provenance: possibly Don Domenico Ricci, Treviso [according to Crowe and Cavalcaselle 1912, who said the present owner was unknown; also uncertain whether this is the miniature to which the text refers]; John Walter, by November 1959 [when it was removed from the cover of his copy of William Roscoe's 'Works', this volume of which was then sold separately at Sotheby's on 12 November 1959, lot 56a]; his subsequent sale, Sotheby's (London), 2 February 1960, lot 249; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 5 February 1960 (£1,800); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Lotto, Lorenzo (c. 1480-1556)

Description: Portrait of a young man

Reference: D.1978.PG.90

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk with stumping, red and white chalk on laid paper prepared with a green wash

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 33.6 x 27 cm

Provenance: William Russell, London (1800-1884), L.2648 (lower right) [no Lotto drawings listed in his 1884 estate sale at Christie's, but could have been among dozens of unidentified Old Master drawings listed as being in a portfolio]; Henry Wagner (1840-1926); Archibald George Blomefield Russell, London and Swanage (1879-1955), L.2770a (lower right); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 9 June 1955, lot 6 (repr.); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£8,000); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Michelangelo (1475-1564), follower of

Description: Christ on the Cross

Reference: D.1978.PG.423

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black and traces of red chalk on laid paper, laid down, the sheet covered in a varnish which has browned and is exhibiting extensive cracks; raised oval patch at upper centre, also evident on the backing sheet (William Clarke suggested this was a cartouche that was once adhered to the backing sheet)

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 42.6 x 30.1 cm

Provenance: Casa Buonarroti; acquired there by Jean Baptiste Joseph Wicar (1762-1834); Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830); William II, King of the Netherlands (1792-1849); his estate sale, de Vries, Roos, Brondgeest (The Hague), 8 December 1850, drawings lot 152; purchased there by Samuel Woodburn (London); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 4 June 1860, lot 114 (listed as coming from 'The Collections of M. Buonaroti, and the Chev. Vicar'); purchased there by Ensom (identity currently unknown); R.M. Smith; his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 1 December 1964, lot 121; purchased there via Colnaghi (London) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£150); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Michelangelo (1475-1564) and Daniele da Volterra (c. 1509-1566)

Description: Aeneas and a child (recto and verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.425

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk (recto and verso) on laid paper, unevenly trimmed; the verso shows remnants of adhesive and brown streaks, likely from having been laid down in an album or mount at some former point

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 10 x 7.5 cm (uneven)

Provenance: Baron Horace de Landau, Florence and Paris (1824-1903) (according to Max de Beer, who owned a number of drawings from the same group to which this sheet belonged, see British Museum record for 1956,1013.20); Ferruccio Asta, Venice (1900-1952), L.116a; acquired directly from him by Dr and Mrs Victor Bloch, London, by 1949 (again see British Museum record); their sale, Sotheby's (London), 12 November 1964, lot 32; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Michelangelo (1475-1564)

Description: Christ on the Cross

Reference: D.1978.PG.426

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1940?

Materials: black chalk on laid paper, with traces of a dark brown ink framing line mostly trimmed away

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 30 x 18.7 cm

Provenance: presumably a French collection, late 18th or early 19th century (based on inscription); Dr Alfred Scharf, London (1900-1965); purchased from him by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978), 13 March 1940 (£1,500); Princes Gate Bequest 1978; Accepted in lieu of tax by HM Government and presented to the Home House Society (now the Samuel Courtauld Trust) in 1981

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Michelangelo (1475-1564), follower of

Description: Virgin and child

Reference: D.1978.PG.421

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: red chalk, pen and brown ink, with one area of white bodycolour on laid paper, laid down on a support with gold borders and a brown ink framing line that partially overlaps the drawing; the upper and lower right corners have been replaced; a pen and ink drawing is hidden on the verso, visible via transmitted light

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 16.5 x 7.5 cm

Provenance: Mrs P. Finkilmann (according to Mystery Dossier report in file); purchased from her by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 4 December 1970 (£32,000); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino), formerly attributed to Carpaccio

Description: Virgin and Child with saints

Reference: D.1978.PG.91

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-37?

Materials: Pen and ink

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Additional information: -

Dimensions: 13 x 17.3

Provenance: John Thane Sir Thomas Lawrence J. P. Heseltine Victor Koch from whom acquired by Seilern in 1937

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Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895)

Description: Young girl sewing

Reference: D.1978.PG.241

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Graphite

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 22.6 x 32

Provenance: Rouart Collection, ParisDina Viernyfrom whom acquired by Seilern in March 1950?

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Morisot, Berthe (1841-1895)

Description: Reading the newspaper

Reference: D.1978.PG.242

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Watercolour

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Additional information: -

Dimensions: 35.9 x 22.5

Provenance: In the artist's studio at her death (Lugt 1826)Rouart Collection, ParisDina Viernyfrom whom acquired by Seilern in March 1950

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Muziano, Girolamo (born 1528 or 1532, died 1592), reworked by Peter Paul Rubens

Description: Raising of Lazarus 1600-08

Reference: D.1978.PG.51

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Chalk (red)

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 34.4 x 40.4

Provenance: P. H. Lankrink (Lugt 2090). Johannes Goldsche, Berlin. Frau Wanda Goldsche, Berlin from whom acquired by Seilern in July/August 1953

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Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793)

Description: Seated lion

Reference: D.1978.PG.133

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink, grey and black wash, white bodycolour on laid paper prepared with a pink wash

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 28.5 x 18.2 cm

Provenance: Vicomte Philogène de Montfort, Paris (1806-1883), L.1035; possibly Ary Johannes Lamme, Rotterdam (1812-1900), L.138 [location and dimensions of the collector's mark differ from those given by Lugt]; Stephen Higgins (Paris); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 26 April 1957; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978), 3 May 1957 (£300); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Novelli, Pietro Antonio (1729-1804); formerly attributed to Guardi, Francesco (1712-1793)

Description: Seated lion

Reference: D.1978.PG.133.1

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink, grey and black wash, white bodycolour on laid paper prepared with a pink wash

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 29 x 18.5 cm

Provenance: Giuseppe Chiantorre, Turin (born c. 1870), L.540; James Byam Shaw, London (1903-1992) [according to a note by Seilern in the provenance file]; Arcade Gallery (London); purchased there by Colnaghi (London), 31 May 1958; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 27 June 1958 (£300, as by Guardi); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Il Giovane, Jacopo Palma (ca. 1548-1628)

Description: Crucifixion

Reference: D.1978.PG.372

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down; pen and ink drawing of the same scene on the verso visible with transmitted light, as is evidence of red chalk

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 19.6 x 30.5 cm

Provenance: Charles Earle; purchased from his heirs (?) by Colnaghi (London), 27 May 1956; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 27 June 1958 (£60); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Pannini, Giovanni Paolo (1691-1765)

Description: Interior of the Pantheon, Rome

Reference: D.1978.PG.130

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash, watercolour and white bodycolour on laid paper, laid down; executed using a ruler and compass

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 33.5 x 26.1 cm

Provenance: Charles Albert de Burlet (Basel from 1934-1956); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), July 1946 (800 francs); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (1503-1540)

Description: Three nude figures (recto), Horse heads (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.93

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: red chalk, pen and light brown ink (recto), pen and grey-brown ink and brown wash (verso) on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 12.1 x 7.1 cm

Provenance: Richard Dalton, England (c. 1715-1791) (according to Gnann); possibly his estate sale, Christie's (London), 11 May 1791, any one of three lots mentioning Parmigianino; Baron Martin von Koblitz (according to Colnaghi); Sotheby's (London), 27 November 1957, lot 34 (with D.1978.PG.94); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£150 for both); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (1503-1540)

Description: Clothed female figure and female head

Reference: D.1978.PG.94

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk, pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 15.6 x 11.5 cm

Provenance: probably Everhard Jabach, Paris (1618-1695) (variant of L.2959 or L.2960 on verso); if so, likely purchased from his heirs by Pierre Crozat, Paris (1665-1740), L.3612 (at lower right); likely his estate sale, Mariette (Paris), 10 April - 13 May 1741 (though Py could not reconcile this drawing with any of those in Crozat's 1741 catalogue); Sotheby's (London), 27 November 1957, lot 34 (with D.1978.PG.93); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£150 for both); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (1503-1540)

Description: Herm

Reference: D.1978.PG.95

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: red chalk on laid paper; now laid down on Japanese tissue

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 18.4 x 7.6 cm (uneven)

Provenance: probably Pierre Crozat, Paris (1665-1740), L.3612 (at lower right; however this Crozat number "147" is also found on a Baroccio drawing in the Hamburger Kunsthalle, inv. no. 21057, and a Romano drawing in the Louvre, inv. 3780); likely his estate sale, Mariette (Paris), 10 April - 13 May 1741 (though not included in Bernadette Py's online catalogue of drawings in Crozat's 1741 catalogue, lots 348-373 comprised over 100 Parmigianino drawings, only a handful of which she was able to identify); Lily Fröhlich-Bum, London (1886-1981), by 1956 (when published by her); purchased from her by Colnaghi (London), 22 November 1957; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 27 November 1957 (£130); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (1503-1540)

Description: Woman seated on the ground (recto), Woman holding distaff (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.96

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk and white bodycolour on brown tinted laid paper, the upper edge made up (recto), black chalk, white bodycolour, and red chalk on untinted laid paper (verso)

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 23.1 x 17.6 cm

Provenance: William Coningham, Brighton (1815-1884), L. 476; Dr Christian D. Ginsburg, Palmer's Green (1831-1914), L. 1145, his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 20-23 July 1915, lot 26; Henry Scipio Reitlinger (1885-1950); his estae sale, Sotheby's (London), 9 December 1953, lot 73; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978) (£500); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (1503-1540)

Description: Study for the 'Entombment'

Reference: D.1978.PG.97

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash and white bodycolour (now blackened in several areas) on laid paper; prominent black ink stains across the verso

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 15.5 x 16.9 cm

Provenance: probably Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel (1585-1646) [known originator of Parmigianino drawings eventually owned by Armano]; by descent to Henry Stafford-Howard, 1st Earl of Stafford (1648-1719); his sale, Tart Hall, London, 1720; purchased there by Antonio Maria Zanetti, Venice (1680-1757); acquired from him by Giovanni Antonio Armano, Venice (active 1780s) (when etched by Francesco Rosaspina 'Dal Gabinetto del Sig. Gio. Antonio Armano'); purchased from him by Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon, Paris (1747-1825); his estate sale, 1 – 19 May 1826, lot 380 ('Dessin à la plume et au lavis; sujet de ensevelissement de notre Seigneur'); Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830), L.2445 (lower left); William Coningham, Brighton (1815-1884), L.476 (lower right); V. Ezekiel, Esq., his sale, Sotheby's (London), 1 February 1956, lot 13; Hans M. Calmann, London (1899-1982); Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 28 February 1957 (£300); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (1503-1540)

Description: Four figures (recto), Studies of heads and a nude (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.357

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink (recto and verso), with some added lines in light brown ink on the verso, on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 14.6 x 14.2 cm

Provenance: Sir Peter Lely, London (1618-1680), L.2092 (verso, lower right; no existing catalogues of his 1688 and 1694 sales); Richard Cosway, London (1740-1821), L.628 (verso, lower left); possibly his estate sale, Stanley’s (London), 14 - 22 February 1822, lot 297 (five small pen and ink drawings by Parmigianino); Francis Abbott, Edinburgh (1801-1893), L.970 (lower right); possibly his estate sale, Dowell (Edinburgh), 22 - 26 January 1894, part of lot 89 ('Four Figures, pen and ink'); Hans M. Calmann, London (1899-1982); Stephen Spector (New York), by November 1962 (when published by Fröhlich-Bum); Christie's (London), 25 - 26 March 1963, lot 294; Mr Hardy, by November 1965 (as per letter from A.E. Popham in object file); purchased via 'Paul' (Paul Graupe? this per Seilern's note in the file) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 15 March 1967 (£1.750); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (1503-1540)

Description: Group of women (recto), Torso with upraised arm (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.358

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: red chalk with a brown ink framing line across the upper edge (recto), red chalk (verso) on laid paper; edges are all ragged

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 21.9 x 15.7 cm

Provenance: Pierre Crozat, Paris (1665-1740), L.3612 (lower right; Bernadette Py could not reconcile this drawing with any of those listed in Crozat's 1772 catalogue); William Young Ottley, London (1771-1836) (according to Sotheby's, who sold it on Ottley's mount; does not match any Parmigianino drawings in Ottley's 1814 sale); Dr and Mrs Victor Bloch, London; their sale, Sotheby's (London), 12 November 1964, lot 52; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (1503-1540)

Description: Male head

Reference: D.1978.PG.359

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper prepared with red wash, laid down on a paper support with gold borders

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 4.5 x 3.2 cm

Provenance: Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 26 July 1966 (£300); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (1503-1540)

Description: Conversion of St Paul (recto and verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.360

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour (recto), traces of black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash (verso) on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 23.7 x 32.9 cm

Provenance: possibly an unidentified collector (red chalk paraphe on verso, not on Lugt); unidentified collector, possibly Jean de la Morinerie (L.1493a); Hugh Squire, London; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 7 June 1962 (£5,000); Princes Gate Bequest 1952

Institution: 

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Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (1503-1540)

Description: Healing of the Lame Man (?)

Reference: D.1978.PG.361

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink, brown wash and white bodycolour on laid paper, laid down; the lower edge excised in a jagged fashion and replaced with differently coloured paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 20.8 x 15.6 cm

Provenance: Sir Peter Lely, London (1618-1680), L.2092 (lower right, though second letter is cut off and letter appears 2 mm taller than recorded by Lugt, so perhaps has been misidentified) [no existing catalogues of his 1688 or 1694 estate sales]; Giovanni Antonio Armano, c. 1800 (when etched by Francesco Rosaspina 'Dal Gabinetto del Sig. Gio. Antonio Armani') [see Popham 1971 - most of Armano's drawings were acquired from the heirs of the Earl of Arundel via Antonio Maria Zanetti and Giovanni Antonio Armano, but Lely's mark precludes that provenance in this case. However, it is not certain the present mark is Lely's L.2092]; Thomas Dimsdale, London (1758-1823) (according to Lawrence catalogue) [Seilern thought Dimsdale probably acquired this directly from Armano]; purchased from his estate via Samuel Woodburn (London) by Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830), L.2445 (lower left) [purchase information from Calmann letter in file]; M. Mailand; his sale, Hotel Drouot (Paris), 4 - 19 April 1881, lot 120 (described as 'Apostles standing at the entrance to a temple'); purchased there by E. Calando, Paris (late 19th century), L.837 (lower right and on verso; does not appear in his 1899 estate sale); Nils Barck, Paris and Madrid (1820-1896), L.1959 (lower left); anonymous sale, Hotel Drouot (Paris), 10 - 11 March 1882, lot 385; possibly John Postle Heseltine, London (1843-1929) (? suggested by verso inscription "Coll. P.H" but no Lugt mark and Seilern unable to find it in any Heseltine collection catalogues); H.M. Calmann (London); purchased from him by Mr and Mrs Elliot Hodgkin, London, by November 1953 (letter in file); sold back to H.M. Calmann (London); purchased there by Colnaghi (London), 24 June 1960; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1970), 22 July 1960 (£1,500); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (1503-1540)

Description: Conversion of Saint Paul

Reference: D.1978.PG.363

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk with brown ink framing lines (recto), black chalk (verso) on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 16.7 x 12.6 cm

Provenance: John Du Pan, Geneva (1785-1838), L.1440 (lower left); possibly his estate sale, Bonnefans (Paris), 26 - 29 March 1840, lot 520 ('Un Cavalier renversé de cheval, esquisse au crayon'); unidentified collector, possibly Benjamin Fillon, Saint Cyr (1819-1881) [though not listed in his 1882 sale catalogue], L.967 (lower left); Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974) [exhibited as in his collection in 1962]; purchased from him via Colnaghi (London) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 25 January 1963 (£2,000); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (1503-1540)

Description: Venus disarming Cupid

Reference: D.1978.PG.364

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk and white bodycolour on paper prepared with a light red chalk wash, with graphite added in pubic region, laid down

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Additional information: 17.4 x 14 cm

Dimensions: 17.4 x 14

Provenance: probably Nathaniel Hillier, London (1707-1783) [accords with no. 88 in his inventory in the British Museum, M. 8.3]; Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792), L.2364 (lower left); John Brophy (1899-1965); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 4 February 1960; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 5 February 1960 (£1,400); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (1503-1540)

Description: Study for Madonna dal Collo Lungo

Reference: D.1978.PG.365

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper prepared with a red chalk wash, laid down on a mount with gold borders partly flaked away

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.5 cm

Provenance: probably Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel (1585-1646) [according to Denon's 1826 sale catalogue, the majority of his Parmigianino drawings came from Arundel's collection]; if so, by descent to Henry Stafford-Howard, 1st Earl of Stafford (1648-1719); his sale, Tart Hall, London, 1720; purchased there by Antonio Maria Zanetti, Venice (1680-1757); acquired from him by Giovanni Antonio Armano, Venice (active 1780s); purchased from him by Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon, Paris (1747-1825), L.780 (lower right); possibly his estate sale, 1 – 19 May 1826, if there identified as one of the studies of the Virgin and Child or Holy Family, lots 371-375; Matthiesen Gallery (London); purchased there by Colnaghi (London), 24 April 1961 on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£650); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (1503-1540)

Description: Coronation of the Virgin for the Steccata

Reference: D.1978.PG.367

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, partially framed in a semi-circle in brown ink, laid down on a historic mount; the paper is flocked with blue fibres and may have originally been blue

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 12.9 x 14.1 cm

Provenance: Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974); purchased from him via Colnaghi (London) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 25 January 1963 (£2,000); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (1503-1540)

Description: Study of Saint John the Baptist

Reference: D.1978.PG.397

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.5 cm

Provenance: Count Alexander von Frey, Paris and Lucerne (1882-1952); by descent to Mrs von Frey; her sale, Sotheby's (London), 25 June 1970; purchased there via Colnaghi (London) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£3,600); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (1503-1540)

Description: Death of Dido

Reference: D.1978.PG.398

Questions in the operative period: Did François de Gouy d'Arsy own this drawing from at least 1933 until his death in 1941? If not, when and where did he acquire it?

Materials: red chalk on laid paper, the upper corners cut, with red chalk framing lines trimmed away at the upper edge, laid down

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 12.2 x 15.3 cm

Provenance: Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel (1585-1646) [as per inscription on the print after it by Hendrik van der Borcht II, c. 1640-50]; Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Amsterdam (1726-1798), L.2034 (verso, lower left); probably his sale, Amsterdam (dir. van der Schley et Roos), 3 March 1800, part of no. 69 in Album LL [as identified by Seilern, but the description only says a drawing in red heightened with white by Parmigianino]; if correctly identified, buyer's annotated name in catalogue appears to read 'Schley' - as in bought by the auction house; Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830), L.2445 (lower left); John Heywood Hawkins, London and Sussex (1802/3-1877); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 29 April 1850, lot 837; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); William Coningham, Brighton (1815-1884), L. 476 (lower right); François de Gouy d'Arsy (1883-1941); then to his partner, with whom he shared a property in France, Russell Greeley (1878-1956); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 26 June 1969, lot 4; purchased there via Colnaghi (London) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£5,600); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (1503-1540)

Description: Crayfish (recto), Study of a kneeling man (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.399

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink, brown wash and white bodycolour (now oxidised) with evidence of brown ink framing lines that have been largely trimmed away (recto), pen and light and dark brown ink, white bodycolour (now oxidised), red chalk (verso) on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 13.9 x 7.4 cm

Provenance: probably Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel (1585-1646) [known originator of Parmigianino drawings eventually owned by Armano]; by descent to Henry Stafford-Howard, 1st Earl of Stafford (1648-1719); his sale, Tart Hall, London, 1720; purchased there by Antonio Maria Zanetti, Venice (1680-1757); acquired from him by Giovanni Antonio Armano, Venice (active 1780s) (when etched by Francesco Rosaspina 'Dal Gabinetto del Sig. Gio. Antonio Armano'); Samuel Woodburn, London (1786-1853); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 12 June 1860, lot 1089 (lot inscribed on the blue paper backing now removed from the sheet and mounted with it; lot 1089 in the 1860 catalogue is 90 drawings listed as 'Miscellaneous Old Masters'); purchased there by Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872); Sotheby's (London), 26 June 1969, lot 2; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Maria (Il Parmigianino) (1503-1540), attributed to

Description: Cherubs (recto), Putto standing (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.356

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: red chalk (recto), red and black chalk, pen and brown ink, touches of white bodycolour (verso) on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 25.8 x 18.7 cm

Provenance: unidentified collector, L.2898 (lower left); Richard Cosway, London (1740-1821), L.628 (lower left); possibly his estate sale, Stanley’s (London), 14 - 22 February 1822, among lots 299-305 (drawings by Parmigianino); Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 1 June 1964 (£1100, as Parmigianino); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)

Description: Pigs c.1906

Reference: D.1978.PG.264

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Charcoal

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 21.3 x 27.3

Provenance: Miss Gertrude SteinBerggruen & Cie, Parisfrom whom acquired through A. Goldschmidt by Seilern in May 1954

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Eeckhout, Gerbrand van den (1621-1674), formerly attributed to Rembrandt (1606-1669)

Description: A quack addressing a crowd

Reference: D.1978.PG.186

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink, brown wash (seems to have black particles mixed in - a black chalk wash?), white bodycolour on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 18.9 x 16.7 cm

Provenance: collected for Friedrich August II of Saxony (1797-1854), L.971, by Johann G.A. Frenzel (1782-1855); Frenzel's sale, Heinrich (Dresden), 7 August 1837, lot 11; in Dresden until after the Second World War [? according to 1983 exhibition catalogue, but no evidence provided for this]; A. & R. Ball (New York), by September 1949 [see correspondence in file]; purchased there via Arthur Goldschmidt (Paris dealer) by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978), 27 April 1950 ($11,000); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)

Description: Female nude with her arm resting on a chair (recto), Cubist study (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.265

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1941?

Materials: charcoal (recto and verso) on wove paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1976

Dimensions: 32 x 24.6 cm

Provenance: Berthold Nothmann, Berlin and London (1865-1942), acquired from him by Dr Alfred Scharf, London (1900-1965); purchased from him by Count Antoine Seilern, London, 16 March 1941 (£73.10); Princes Gate Bequest 1976

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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669), workshop of

Description: A scene from the Old Testament (? Formerly 'The madness of Saul')

Reference: D.1978.PG.195

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1941 (year of the owner's death, as unsure when he acquired it)?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, with graphite framing lines on three sides, the upper right corner made up

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 17.9 x 14.7 cm

Provenance: Paul Mathey (1844-1929); Franz Koenigs, Haarlem (1881-1941); by descent to his heirs; their sale, Sotheby's (London), 20 November 1957, lot 71 (as 'The madness of Saul'); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£2,200); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669), workshop of

Description: The Liberation of Saint Peter from prison

Reference: D.1978.PG.196

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: traces of black chalk, pen and two different brown inks (which have been rubbed in areas) on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 16.5 x 25.4 cm

Provenance: collected for Friedrich August II of Saxony (1797-1854), L.971, by Johann G.A. Frenzel (1782-1855); Frenzel's sale, Heinrich (Dresden), 7 August 1837, lot 62; in Dresden until after the Second World War [? according to the 1983 exhibition catalogue, but no evidence provided for this]; A. & R. Ball (New York), by September 1949 [see correspondence in file]; purchased there via Arthur Goldschmidt (Paris dealer) by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978), March 1955 (along with Rembrandt, 'The Astronomer' [location unknown?], both for a total of $6,300); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669), school of

Description: The Taking of Christ

Reference: D.1978.PG.198

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1935?

Materials: pen and brown ink, brown wash, traces of white bodycolour and scraping for erasure, on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 17.7 x 26.2 cm

Provenance: collected for Friedrich August II of Saxony (1797-1854), L.971, by Johann G.A. Frenzel (1782-1855); Frenzel's sale, Heinrich (Dresden), 7 August 1837, lot 71; in Dresden until after the Second World War [? according to the 1983 exhibition catalogue, but no evidence provided for this]; A. & R. Ball (New York), by September 1949 [see correspondence in file]; purchased there via Arthur Goldschmidt (Paris dealer) by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978), 27 April 1950 ($12,500; at same time purchased D.1978.PG.186); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Pannini, Giovanni Paolo (1691-1765)

Description: Sheet of figure studies with five men

Reference: D.1978.PG.144

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: red chalk on laid paper, laid down on mount so unable to see verso, the left upper edge, right lower edge and parts of lower edge all made up

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 15.5 x 23.8 cm

Provenance: Mrs Eugenia Zarnowska, Paris; given by her in memory of her husband, Dr Jan Zarnowski, to Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), n.d.; Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669), workshop of

Description: Angel of the Lord attacks Moses and Zipporah circumcises their son to allay God's wrath

Reference: D.1978.PG.409

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1941?

Materials: pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 15.9 x 22.3 cm

Provenance: Leo Blumenreich (Berlin); Franz Koenigs, Haarlem (1881-1941), probably acquired after 1931 [when he had sold off his first collection]; by descent to his son, W. Koenigs (1926-2009); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 23 March 1960, lot 10; Alfred Brod Gallery (London), by July 1961; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), November 1961 (£3,800); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Pannini, Giovanni Paolo (1691-1765)

Description: Two monks, one standing, the other seated

Reference: D.1978.PG.145.1

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: red chalk, moistened in areas, on laid paper, cut out along the outlines of the figures, laid down on a historic support with D.1978.PG.145.2-.3, the missing edges of each made up with brown wash added on the support (added by Count Antoine Seilern as per his 1955 catalogue)

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 11 x 14.3 cm (irregular)

Provenance: Mrs Eugenia Zarnowska, Paris; given by her in memory of her husband, Dr Jan Zarnowski, to Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), n.d.; Princes Gate Bequest 1979ki

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669)

Description: Old woman with large headdress

Reference: D.1978.PG.191

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk and charcoal on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines (examined under microscope)

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 13.8 x 11 cm

Provenance: collected for Friedrich August II of Saxony (1797-1854), L.971, by Johann G.A. Frenzel (1782-1855); Frenzel's sale, Heinrich (Dresden), 7 August 1837, lot 17 (as Rembrandt's mother); in Dresden until after the Second World War [? according to the 1983 exhibition catalogue, but no evidence provided for this]; Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 25 August 1948 (along with D.1978.PG.192, £2,000 for both); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Pannini, Giovanni Paolo (1691-1765)

Description: A monk standing, facing right

Reference: D.1978.PG.145.2

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: red chalk, moistened in areas, on laid paper, cut out along the outlines of the figures, laid down on a historic support with D.1978.PG.145.1 and .3, the missing edges of each made up with brown wash added on the support (added by Count Antoine Seilern as per his 1955 catalogue)

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 12.3 x 4.9 cm (irregular)

Provenance: Mrs Eugenia Zarnowska, Paris; given by her in memory of her husband, Dr Jan Zarnowski, to Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), n.d.; Princes Gate Bequest 1980

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669)

Description: Study for the painting 'A Girl at a window' (Dulwich Picture Gallery)

Reference: D.1978.PG.192

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk on laid paper, laid down

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 8.3 x 6.5 cm

Provenance: Jean-Denis Lempereur, Paris (1701-1779), L.1740; possibly his sale, Boileau et Joullain (Paris), 24 May (and following days) 1773, lot 333 ('Trois feuilles, sur chacune desquelles est une tête à la pierre noire"); collected for Friedrich August II of Saxony (1797-1854), L.971, by Johann G.A. Frenzel (1782-1855); Frenzel's sale, Heinrich (Dresden), 7 August 1837 (although unable to identify the lot); in Dresden until after the Second World War [? according to the 1983 exhibition catalogue, but no evidence provided for this]; Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 25 August 1948 (along with D.1978.PG.191, £2,000 for both); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Pannini, Giovanni Paolo (1691-1765)

Description: Two monks standing, facing left

Reference: D.1978.PG.145.3

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: red chalk, moistened in areas, on laid paper, cut out along the outlines of the figures, laid down on a historic support with D.1978.PG.145.1-.2, the missing edges of each made up with brown wash added on the support (added by Count Antoine Seilern as per his 1955 catalogue)

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 12.4 x 9.5 cm

Provenance: Mrs Eugenia Zarnowska, Paris; given by her in memory of her husband, Dr Jan Zarnowski, to Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), n.d.; Princes Gate Bequest 1981

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Pannini, Giovanni Paolo (1691-1765)

Description: Nine fragments of a study of monks

Reference: D.1978.PG.145.4

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: red chalk, moistened in areas, on nine separate small fragments of laid paper, all irregularly cut into trapezoidal or triangular shapes, now laid down together on a support

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 9 fragments of varying very small dimensions

Provenance: Mrs Eugenia Zarnowska, Paris; given by her in memory of her husband, Dr Jan Zarnowski, to Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), n.d.; Princes Gate Bequest 1982

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Pannini, Giovanni Paolo (1691-1765)

Description: Man standing with head and shoulders bent forward

Reference: D.1978.PG.146

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, wash added in some areas, the left upper edge made up

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 18.2 x 8.2 cm

Provenance: Mrs Eugenia Zarnowska, Paris; given by her in memory of her husband, Dr Jan Zarnowski, to Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), November 1951; Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Pittoni, Giovanni Battista, the younger (1687-1767)

Description: Sheet of studies with heads of angels and arms

Reference: D.1978.PG.129

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Chalk (red)

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Additional information: -

Dimensions: 27.5 x 35

Provenance: Colnaghi, Londonfrom whom acquired by Seilern in July 1951

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Part of: Drawings

Polidoro da Caravaggio (ca. 1499-ca. 1543)

Description: Adoration of the shepherds

Reference: D.1978.PG.354

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Chalk (red) & bodycolour (white)

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 24.1 x 18.2 cm

Provenance: Sir Peter Lely. Sale, Sotheby's, 22 February 1961, No. 33. Sale, Sotheby's, 1 December 1964, No. 172 where acquired through Colnaghi by Seilern

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Canaletto, Antonio (1697-1768)

Description: View from Somerset Gardens looking towards London Bridge

Reference: D.1978.PG.131

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-35?

Materials: graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper, with grey and brown ink framing lines; a large section at the right centre edge has been excised and replaced; now laid down on Japanese tissue

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 23.6 x 73.4 cm

Provenance: Thomas Moore Slade (1771-1824); his sale, London, 5 July 1810 (£3.9); Mrs Heywood Johnstone (d. 1924); her sale, Christie's (London), 20 February 1925, lot 20; purchased there by Ellis and Smith (London) (£2,947); Adrien Fauchier-Magnan (1873-1965); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 4 December 1935, lot 3; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest, 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669), school of

Description: Tobias curing the old Tobit

Reference: D.1978.PG.179

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 11.1 x 6.5 cm

Provenance: Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) [Information from the dealer, perhaps L.2445 was formerly present]; ceded by his executors to Samuel Woodburn (London), 1835; Woodburn estate sale, Christie's (London), 16-27 June 1854, lot 2234; GAP; John Postle Heseltine, London (1843-1929), L.1508; GAP; W.H. Schab (New York); purchased there by Paul Graupe (New York) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978), 4 December 1947 (£162); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Flinck, Govaert (1615-1660), formerly attributed to Rembrandt (1606-1669)

Description: Scholar seated at a table on which rests a large book

Reference: D.1978.PG.180

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, upper corners made up

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 15.3 x 16.3 cm

Provenance: possibly François Desmarais (active 1729), L.3358 [the stamp is small and indistinct]; Lord John Somers (1650-1716); his estate sale, Remy (Paris), 10-13 December 1759, part of lot 279 ('Treize dessins de Rembrandt & Ecole'); Hagen [? per verso inscription]; M.H. Speelman [? per verso inscription]; H.J. Bhabha, London; Arthur Goldschmidt (Paris); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978), 1959; Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

After: Peter Paul Rubens; Attributed to: Pieter Soutman (?)

Description: Crocodile and hippopotamus hunt; the animals surrounded by men on horseback with spears, a man with a dagger partly underneath the crocodile at left; after Peter Paul Rubens. Brush drawing in brown and grey wash, and black chalk; squared for transfer; lower half incised

Reference: 1949,0413.1

Questions in the operative period: Acquired since 1933 with uncertain 1933-45 provenance.

Materials: paper

Acquisition: 1949

Dimensions: Height: 432.00 mm; Width: 558.00 mm

Provenance: Donated by: Count Antoine Seilern; Previous owner/ex-collection: H W Campe; Previous owner/ex-collection: Ernst Heinrich Ehlers; Previous owner/ex-collection: Charles Albert de Burlet

Institution: 

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669)

Description: Two Studies for St John the Baptist preaching (recto), Small study of a head (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.182

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: red chalk (recto and verso) on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 17.5 x 18.8 cm

Provenance: Captain Edward George Spencer-Churchill (1887-1920) (according to Benesch); Mrs H. Frohlich (? perhaps a typo in Colnaghi's archive book, as for other drawings they record Mrs Frohlich's first initial as "L"); purchased from her by Colnaghi (London), 15 July 1959; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 17 July 1959 (£280); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669)

Description: Saskia sitting up in bed, holding a child

Reference: D.1978.PG.183

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: red chalk on laid paper, with graphite framing lines partly trimmed away

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 14.1 x 10.6 cm

Provenance: James Edward Harris, 5th Earl of Malmesbury, Viscount Fitzharris (1872-1950); his sale, Christie's, London, 21 April 1950, lot 95 (sold with another drawing: 'Studies of babies asleep') purchased there by Barnett (?); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978), 12 June 1950 (£1,200 for both this and D.1978.PG.184); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669)

Description: Two studies of Saskia

Reference: D.1978.PG.184

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: red chalk on laid paper with brown ink framing lines

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 15.5 x 13.7 cm

Provenance: James Edward Harris, 5th Earl of Malmesbury, Viscount Fitzharris (1872-1950); his sale, Christie's (London), 21 April 1950, lot 96; purchased there by Barnett (?); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978), 12 June 1950 (£1,200 for both this and D.1978.PG.183); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669)

Description: Saskia seated at a table

Reference: D.1978.PG.185

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: red chalk on laid paper with brown ink framing lines, the upper right corner cut

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 12 x 10.6 cm

Provenance: Pierre Crozat, Paris (1665-1740), L.3612 (no. 292); his estate sale, Mariette (Paris), 10 April-13 May 1741, among lots 867-878 (comprising 351 drawings by Rembrandt); unidentified collector (L.1551b); H.M. Calmann (London); purchased there by Colnaghi (London), 22 February 1955, on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£550); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669)

Description: Bodies of Saul and his sons taken down from the wall of Beth Shean

Reference: D.1978.PG.187

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines)

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 19.9 x 27.4 cm

Provenance: Charles Delanglade, Marseillle (1870-1952); by descent to his niece Hélène and her husband Henri Bonnasse (1899-1984); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 12 February 1957; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 1 May 1957 (£700); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669), workshop of

Description: Head of an old woman

Reference: D.1978.PG.189

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on paper support; loss of lower right corner, which had some brown ink on it as evidenced by a stray line

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 4.3 x 2.7 cm

Provenance: Alister Mathews, Bournemouth (1907-1985); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 10 February 1958; purchased there by Captain Norman Robert Colville (1893-1974), 2 May 1958 (£100); purchased back from him by Colnaghi (London), 21 January 1959; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 30 June 1959 (£100); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669), workshop of

Description: Old man with a long coat and large hat

Reference: D.1978.PG.197

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1935?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines trimmed away on all but the bottom edge

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 15 x 9.3 cm

Provenance: Montagu Henry Edmund Cecil Towneley-Bertie, 8th Earl of Abingdon (1887-1963); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 17 July 1935?; Victor Koch, Hampstead (1867-1959); purchased from him by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 1937; Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669)

Description: View of Diemen

Reference: D.1978.PG.199

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Pen and ink & wash

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 8.8 x 15.5 cm

Provenance: A.Straeter, sold Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 10 May 1898 (1180). Atherton and Louise Burleigh Curtis, sold Klipstein, Berne, 28 April 1955 (372) where acquired by Seilern

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669), school of

Description: Farm buildings on the banks of a canal

Reference: D.1978.PG.200

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1943?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper (paper is brown due to light exposure, as can be seen compared to the white verso)

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 6.2 x 16.5 cm

Provenance: 18th-century French collection (formerly in a small album which bore the title 'Plusieurs petites Exquises et desains', removed before 1943; rest of the album acquired by the British Museum); Marshall Spink of Spink & Son (London); purchased from him by Dr Ernst Sklarz, London (1894-1975), by December 1943; purchased from Dr and Mrs Sklarz by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 25 January 1956 (£1,350); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669), attributed to

Description: Study of a female nude, seen from behind

Reference: D.1978.PG.404

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk on laid (heavily foxed) paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 15.9 x 11.9 cm

Provenance: Joseph Daniel Böhm, Vienna (1794-1865), L.1442 and L.271; Rudolf Peltzer, Cologne (1825-1910), variant of L.2231 on the verso; by descent to his heirs; their sale, Gutekunst (Stuttgart), 13-14 May 1914, lot 308 (pl. 21); Dr Hans Wendland, Lugano; his sale, Kornfeld and Klipstein (Berne), 14 June 1967, lot 254; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£2,590); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669), workshop of

Description: Study for a portrait of Saskia standing holding flowers in her hand

Reference: D.1978.PG.405

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down on a card support

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 cm

Provenance: Hugh N. Squire, London; purchased from him via Colnaghi (London) by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), July 1962 (£16,500); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669), studio of

Description: Study of a seated actor (recto), Study of head of an actor (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.406

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink and a stroke of brown wash with brown ink framing lines (recto), pen and brown ink (verso), on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 18.5 x 14.4 cm

Provenance: John Bouverie, England (c.1722/23-1750), L.325; Boehler (Munich); Heinrich Eisemann (Frankfurt-am-Main); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 1926 (£400); purchased there by Hofer (?), 1928 (£520); Alverthorpe Gallery (Jenkintown, Pennsylvania); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Pennsylvania (1891-1979, owner of the Alverthorpe Gallery); his daughter-in-law, Dorothy Rosenwald, Pennsylvania (1920-2017); her sale, Sotheby's (London), 6 July 1967, lot 8; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669)

Description: Profile view of a seated man, head propped in his left hand

Reference: D.1978.PG.407

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, with grey ink framing lines mostly trimmed away

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.8 cm

Provenance: Franz Kleinberger (Paris) (according to Benesch); exhibited at Alfred Brod Gallery (London), 16 February - 4 March 1961, no. 3 (listed for £1,750); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669), follower of

Description: Woman holding a vase

Reference: D.1978.PG.408

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black and red chalk, pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on a historic mount (Richardson's?)

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 13.1 x 7.8 cm

Provenance: Jonathan Richardson, the elder, London (1665-1745), L.2184 and L.2995; John Barnard, London (1709-1784), L.1419 and L.1420; Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792), L.2364 and L.3016a; Gerald M. Fitzgerald, Esq.; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 23-24 May 1922, lot 38; Dr and Mrs Victor Bloch; their sale, Sotheby's (London), 13 May 1964, lot 38; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£750); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Part of: Drawings

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669), workshop of

Description: Lot and his daughters

Reference: D.1978.PG.411

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 9.7 x 16.4 cm

Provenance: unidentified collector (mark not on Lugt, but identified by Lugt in a letter in the file as of the seventeenth century); Joseph Carl Ritter von Klinkosch, Vienna (1822-1888) [according to a graphite inscription on the verso]; his estate sale, Wawra (Vienna), 15 April 1889, lot 740 (as School of Rembrandt); Dr Alfred Ritter von Wurzbach-Tannenberg, Vienna (1845-1915), L.2587; Salman Schocken, Zwickau (1877-1959) [according to Benesch]; Sotheby's (London), 7 July 1966, lot 13; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978) (£16,000); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

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Part of: Drawings

Renoir, Pierre Auguste (1841-1919)

Description: Designs for the decoration of a door ('Oedipus') I

Reference: D.1978.PG.244

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Chalk (black)

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 25.5 x 40.3 cm

Provenance: Dr H. Stinnes, Cologne. De Burlet, Basle from whom acquired by Seilern in 1955

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Renoir, Pierre Auguste (1841-1919)

Description: Designs for the decoration of a door ('Oedipus') II

Reference: D.1978.PG.245

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Chalk (black)

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 21.2 x 48.3 cm

Provenance: A. Vollard, Paris. Alfred Scharf, London from whom acquired by Seilern in 1949

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Ricci, Sebastiano (1659-1734)

Description: Continence of Scipio

Reference: D.1978.PG.125

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Pen and ink

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 21.8 x 23.2 cm

Provenance: Artaria and Co., Vienna, according to collector's mark (apparently 19th century). Acquired by Seilern before 1959

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Ricci, Sebastiano (1659-1734)

Description: Female figure

Reference: D.1978.PG.373

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Pen and ink

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 18.1 x 7.3 cm

Provenance: Colnaghi, London from whom acquired by Seilern in 1966

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Hubert, Robert

Description: Study of a portico (recto), A parrot (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.231

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: graphite

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 15.7 x 11

Provenance: H. Destailleur, sale, Paris, 26-27 May 1893 (102)(?)Louis Deglatigny, Rouen (1854-1936)Sale, Klipstein, Berne, 28 April 1955 (381)where acquired through Colnaghi by Seilern

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Dyck, Anthony van (1599-1641)

Description: Man of Sorows

Reference: P.1978.PG.104

Questions in the operative period: Where was this painting between 1933-45?

Materials: Oil on paper

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978.

Additional information: -

Dimensions: 71 x 54

Provenance: Private collection, Genoa.Acquired by Seilern through Hugelshofer, Switzerland, 1968.

Institution: 

Part of: Paintings

Hubert, Robert

Description: Terrace in an Italian garden

Reference: D.1978.PG.232

Questions in the operative period: Did Fauchier-Magnan own this drawing by 1933?

Materials: chalk (red)

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 14.7 x 10.1

Provenance: A. Fauchier-Magnan, sale, Sotheby's, 4 December 1935 (15, as Fragonard)where acquired by Seilern

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Dyck, Anthony van (1599-1641)

Description: Virgin and Child with a Bishop donor and St. Anthony Abbot

Reference: P.1978.PG.105

Questions in the operative period: Where was this painting between 1933-41?

Materials: Oil on panel

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978.

Additional information: -

Dimensions: 19.4 x 22.3

Provenance: Alfred Scharf, London,from whom acquired by Seilern in 1941.

Institution: 

Part of: Paintings

Cosimo Rosselli (attributed to)

Description: Sheet of studies

Reference: D.1978.PG.347

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Pen and ink

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Additional information: -

Dimensions: 8 x 7

Provenance: Colnaghi, London from whom acquired by Seilern in 1960

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Fetti, Domenico (ca. 1589-1624)

Description: Parable of the Sower of Tares

Reference: P.1978.PG.121

Questions in the operative period: Where was this painting between 1933-45?

Materials: Oil on panel

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978.

Dimensions: 60.4 x 44.4 cm

Provenance: Mrs Ruth Spratting of Ethingham Court, Finchley, London, Christie's, 2 April 1948 (lot n.143).Alfred Scharf, London,from whom acquired by Seilern in 1951.

Institution: 

Part of: Paintings

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

Description: Calumny of Apelles (recto), Figure and architectural sketches (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.52

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk, pen and brown ink and brown wash (recto), pen and brown ink and black chalk (verso) on grey-brown laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 30.9 x 39.1 cm

Provenance: possibly Joseph Ceci (Tunbridge Wells); possibly purchased there by Colnaghi (London), 18 December 1953; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 31 December 1953 (£300); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Flemish School

Description: Landscape with St. Onophrius

Reference: P.1978.PG.124

Questions in the operative period: Where was this painting between 1933-45?

Materials: Oil on panel

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978.

Additional information: -

Dimensions: 16.7 x 19.3

Provenance: Sale Gallery Georges Giroux, Brussels, 1/2 March 1957, where bought by W. Burchard, from whom acquired by Seilern in 1957.

Institution: 

Part of: Paintings

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

Description: Head of the Farnese Hercules (recto and verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.53

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black and white chalk (recto and verso) on grey laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 36.6 x 24.5 cm

Provenance: private collection, Ireland; Leo Franklyn, London; acquired from him by Alfred Scharf, London (1900-1965), 1951; purchased from him by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 21 December 1951 (£550); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

Description: Saint Amandus and Saint Walpurga

Reference: D.1978.PG.54

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-37?

Materials: Pen and ink (brown)

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Additional information: -

Dimensions: 24.4 x 14.8

Provenance: The Earl of PembrokeVictor Koch, Londonfrom whom acquired by Seilern in 1937

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Italian school, 17th century

Description: Portrait of a Man

Reference: P.1978.PG.200

Questions in the operative period: Where was this painting between 1933-45?

Materials: Oil on canvas

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978.

Additional information: -

Dimensions: 56.6 x 49.5

Provenance: Colnaghi, London, from whom acquired by Seilern in 1951.

Institution: 

Part of: Paintings

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

Description: Studies for the Presentation in the Temple (recto), Man holding a shaft of the Cross (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.56

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1937?

Materials: pen and brown ink, brown wash (recto), black chalk and brown wash (verso), on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 24.2 x 23.7 cm

Provenance: Pieter Langerhuizen Lzn, Crailoo (1839-1918), L.2095 (but not sold in his estate sale of drawings at Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, 29 April - 1 May 1919); Victor Koch, Hampstead (1867-1959); purchased from him by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 1937; Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Jacobsz., Lambert (ca. 1598-1636)

Description: Abigail and Nabal

Reference: P.1978.PG.201

Questions in the operative period: When and where was the picture acquired by the Frohlich Gallery?

Materials: Oil on panel

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978.

Dimensions: 55.3 x 67.5 cm

Provenance: English art market.Frohlich Gallery, Vienna,from whom acquired by Seilern in 1935.

Institution: 

Part of: Paintings

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

Description: Conversion of Saint Paul

Reference: D.1978.PG.57: Left half:

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-40?

Materials: Pen and ink (brown) & wash & bodycolour (white)

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 22.2 x 32.9

Provenance: Lawrence-Woodburn sale, Christie's, 4 June 1860 (353 as Van Dyck)Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1940from whom acquired in exchange by Seilern in 1953

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Kokoschka, Oskar (1886-1980)

Description: Market in Tunis

Reference: P.1978.PG.207

Questions in the operative period: Where was this painting between 1933-45?

Materials: Oil on canvas

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978.

Dimensions: 86.5 x 129

Provenance: Marcell von Nemes, Munich.Grete Ring, London,from whom acquired by Seilern in 1939/45.

Institution: 

Part of: Paintings

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

Description: Conversion of Saint Paul

Reference: D.1978.PG.57: Right half:

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-43?

Materials: Pen and ink (brown) & wash & bodycolour (white)

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 22.2 x 32.9

Provenance: Sir Joshua ReynoldsSale, Mathey, Paris, circa 1939-43Sale, Boerner, Leipzig, 30 March 1943 (124)where bought by GroteAcquired through Boerner, Dusseldorf, by Seilern in 1952

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Lotto, Lorenzo (ca. 1480-1556)

Description: The Holy Family with St. Anne

Reference: P.1978.PG.224

Questions in the operative period: When was the picture acquired by Hoffman?

Materials: Oil on canvas

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978.

Additional information: -

Dimensions: 61.3 x 82.6

Provenance: A. Hoffman, Vienna, by 1936,from whom acquired by Seilern in 1949 (through J. Wilde).

Institution: 

Part of: Paintings

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

Description: Studies of a monk (recto), Demonic reptile and upper part of an angel (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.58

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk and traces of white chalk (recto), black, red and yellow chalk (verso), on grey-brown laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 45.3 x 31.8 cm

Provenance: Thomas Agnew & Sons (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 26 April 1945 (£350); Prince Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Magnasco, Alessandro (1667-1749)

Description: Landscape with Washerwomen

Reference: P.1978.PG.230

Questions in the operative period: When was the picture acquired by F.M. Nichols?

Materials: Oil on canvas

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978.

Dimensions: 98 x 71.2

Provenance: Sir W. Burrell, sold Christie's, 12 June 1897 (65, as Marco Ricci).It may have been sold to the same buyer as the previous lot, recorded as 'Turner', who may have been an agent for F. M. Nichols.Sir Philip Nichols (Lawford Hall, Manningtree, when called S. Ricci),from whom acquired by Seilern in 1961.

Institution: 

Part of: Paintings

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

Description: Study for the Figure of Saint Joseph

Reference: D.1978.PG.59

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1941?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 19.1 x 19.7 cm

Provenance: Pauline Bonaparte, Princess Borghese (1780-1825); Arthur Henry Holland-Hibbert, 3rd Viscount Knutsford (1855 -1935); by descent to Mrs. A. Hibbert; Dr Alfred Scharf, London (1900-1965); purchased from him by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 29 July 1941 (£220); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Manet, Edouard (1832-1883)

Description: Au Bal

Reference: P.1978.PG.233

Questions in the operative period: Where was this painting between 1933-45?

Materials: Oil on canvas

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978.

Dimensions: 55.7 x 35.5

Provenance: Manet's studio sale, Feb. 1884,bought by Le Meilleur.Private collection, Austria.Acquired by Seilern before 1960.

Institution: 

Part of: Paintings

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

Description: Female nude

Reference: D.1978.PG.62

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1941?

Materials: red, black and white chalk on laid paper, laid down on a historic support

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 26.9 x 41.6 cm

Provenance: Prosper Henry Lankrink, London (1628-1692), L.2090; Joseph van Haecken, London (1699-1749), L.2516; Jonathan Richardson, the younger, London (1694-1771), L.2170 and L.2997; Sir Joshua Reynolds, London (1723-1792), L.2364 and L.3016a; Gerald M. Fitzgerald; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 23 - 24 May 1922, lot 41; private collection, London; Zatzenstein-Matthiesen Gallery (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 19 September 1941 (£900); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Mantegna, after

Description: Man of Sorows

Reference: P.1978.PG.235

Questions in the operative period: Where was this painting between 1933-45?

Materials: Tempera on linen

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978.

Dimensions: 42.3 x 30.3 cm

Provenance: Agnew, London,from whom acquired by Seilern in 1964.

Institution: 

Part of: Paintings

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

Description: Helena Fourment

Reference: D.1978.PG.64

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1928 and 1934?

Materials: black, red and white chalk, pen and brown ink, white bodycolour following contours of figure (now darkened) on laid paper, the figure cut around the silhouette and backed, most of this cut away and the whole backed again

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 61 x 55 cm

Provenance: Prince Charles Alexandre de Lorraine (1712-1780); Comte de Cuypers de Rijmenam (1760-1773); Jean Gilles Marie Joseph Schamp d'Aveschoot (1765-1839); his estate sale, Van Regemorter (Ghent), 14-17 September 1840, lot 192; purchased there by Schryver (510 francs); Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Robert Stayner Holford (1808-1892), 30 October 1840 (£100); by descent to Sir George Lindsay Holford (1860-1926); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 17-18 May 1928, lot 3; purchased there by Knoedler (£6,825); E.J. van Wisselingh, Amsterdam (b. 1838), 1932; Zatzenstein-Matthiesen (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978), August 1934; Princes Gate Bequest, 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

Description: Study for 'The Bath of Diana' (recto), Study for a battle of horsemen (verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.65

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink (recto), black and red chalk (verso) on laid paper)

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 29.1 x 50.9 cm

Provenance: Prosper Henry Lankrink, London (1628-1692), L.2090; Jonathan Richardson, the younger, London (1694-1771), L.2170; R. Adam Ellis; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 18 December 1940, lot 15; purchased there by Heinrich Eisemann (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, 16 January 1941 (£625); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

Description: Saint Francis kneeling, receiving the infant Christ

Reference: D.1978.PG.324

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black and red chalk, pen and brown ink, on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, the left edge partially made up

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 37.1 x 26.2 cm

Provenance: Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Amsterdam (1726-1798); by descent to Christiaan Josi, Amsterdam and London (1768-1828); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 18 March 1829, lot 110; purchased there by Hixon; Victor Koch, Hampstead (1867-1959); his sale, Frederick Müller & Cie (Amsterdam), 21 November 1929, lot 29; Dr N. Beets, Amsterdam; his sale, Frederick Müller & Cie (Amsterdam), 9-11 April 1940, lot 149; private collector, America; her sale, Sotheby's (London?), 25 March 1965, lot 100; Hallsborough Gallery, London; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 16 December 1965 (£4095); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640), school of

Description: Entombment, Saturn and five women

Reference: D.1978.PG.67

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1942?

Materials: black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 28.1 x 20.4 cm

Provenance: Captain Norman Robert Colville (1893-1974); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 28 December 1942 (£100, as Rubens); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

Description: Hercules defeating Achelous

Reference: D.1978.PG.326

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: charcoal, black chalk, brown wash and white bodycolour on laid paper, the upper corners rounded and the lower corners cut

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 25 x 35.7 cm

Provenance: Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), November 1959 (£40); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Saint-Aubin, Gabriel de (1724-1780)

Description: Statue in the Tuileries Gardens

Reference: D.1978.PG.228

Questions in the operative period: Did Fauchier-Magnan own the drawing by 1933?

Materials: Graphite & pen and ink & watercolour

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Additional information: -

Dimensions: 20.2 x 13 cm

Provenance: Anonymous sale, Paris, 3-4 June 1920 (200)A. Fauchier-Magnan, sale, Sotheby's, 4 December 1935 (51)where acquired by Seilern

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Sansovino, Jacopo (1486-1570) (Jacopo d’Antonio Tatti)

Description: Studies of two nude figures (recto and verso)

Reference: D.1978.PG.351

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between 1933-45?

Materials: Chalk (red) (recto and verso)

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978

Dimensions: 17.8 x 25.9

Provenance: Sir Joshua Reynolds. Dr and Mrs Francis Springell, sale, Sotheby's, 28 June 1962 (19, as by Andrea del Sarto)where acquired through Colnaghi by Seilern

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Mura, Francesco de (1696-1782)

Description: Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Reference: P.1978.PG.281

Questions in the operative period: Where was this painting between 1933-45?

Materials: Oil on canvas

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978.

Dimensions: 47.2 x 63.2 cm

Provenance: Acquired by Seilern through Dr. Zarnowski, Paris, 1950.

Institution: 

Part of: Paintings

Savery, Jacob I (ca. 1545-1602); formerly attributed to Pieter Bruegel, the elder (1525/30-1569)

Description: Landscape with a town

Reference: D.1978.PG.316

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: traces of black chalk (visible under microscope), pen and brown ink on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines largely trimmed away

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 14.5 x 19 cm

Provenance: sale at Hôtel Drouot (Paris), 1874 (according to Michel 1950); Dr E.S. (?), Aveyron, France; Otto Wertheimer, Galerie les Tourettes (Paris); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern (1901-1978), April 1955; Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Savery, Jacob I (ca. 1545-1602); formerly attributed to Pieter Bruegel, the elder (1525/30-1569)

Description: Landscape with two peasants and a dog

Reference: D.1978.PG.317

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: black chalk, pen and brown ink on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 19.6 x 31.1 cm

Provenance: Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (1708-1759); Sotheby's (London), 26 June 1957, lot 4 (as Bruegel, 'Landscape with a village church beneath a ruined castle'); purchased there by Dr W. Katz (London); purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 25 July 1957 (£2000); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Savery, Jacob I (ca. 1545-1602); formerly attributed to Pieter Bruegel, the elder (1525/30-1569)

Description: Landscape with a castle and windmill on a rock

Reference: D.1978.PG.320

Questions in the operative period: Where was this drawing between the years 1933-1945?

Materials: pen and brown ink on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Acquisition: Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Dimensions: 7.5 x 17.1 cm

Provenance: Helene de Beer, London (1898-1984); purchased from her by Colnaghi (London), 25 November 1958; purchased there by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 5 March 1959 (£1,200); Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Institution: 

Part of: Drawings

Palma, Jacopo, il vecchio (ca. 1479-1528)

Description: Venus in a landscape

Reference: P.1978.PG.305

Questions in the operative period: When and where was the picture acquired by Stadler?

Materials: Oil on canvas

Acquisition: Bequeathed as part of the Princes Gate Collection, 1978.

Additional information: -

Dimensions: 77.5 x 152.7

Provenance: Count Radetzky, Schloss Wetzdorf, Lower Austria.Dr. Viktor Stadler, Vienna,from whom acquired by Seilern in 1934.

Institution: 

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