Feliciano's Lost Museum on Galerie Cailleux during the German Occupation of Paris

In his groundbreaking 1995 book, The Lost Museum: The Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art, Hector Feliciano devoted several pages to the activities of the Galerie Cailleux during the German occupation of France.

Tate Provenance Research Project: Paintings, sculpture and works on paper

Lists of works with incomplete provenance during the period 1933 - 1945

Tate

Contact details for further enquiries about works of art in this list, can be found in the Tate Spoliation Report.

• Sections: 
• Oppé Collection
• Paintings, sculpture and works on paper

Paintings, sculpture and works on paper

Paintings, sculpture and works on paper

AMICONI, Giacomo 1682-1752

Mercury about to slay Argus (1730-32)

• Materials: Oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 65.5 x 64.5 (25 3/4 x 25 1/4)
• Acquisition: Purchased by Colnaghi's for the Tate Gallery 1971
• Reference: T01299

Provenance

private collection near Freiburg im Breisgau c.1964*
anonymous German art dealer
Galerie Münsterburg, Basle +
Sotheby's, London, sale 24 March (53)
P & D Colnaghi & Co. Ltd

Questions in the operative period

No information on the identity of the private collection in Freiburg

Additional Information

+ In correspondence with the Tate Gallery, May 1971, the Galerie Münsterburg stated that the picture had been in a private collection near Freiburg, but could not provide more specific information.