| AMAM Provenance List | | | |
| European paintings in the AMAM collection with incomplete provenance and/or changes in ownership in Europe for the period 1933-1945: | | | |
| Artist | Artwork | AccNum |
Provenance
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| Apollonio di Giovanni | Battle Between the Athenians and the Persians | 1943.239 | With Paul Drey Gallery, New York, from whom purchased in 1943. |
| Paul Cézanne | Viaduct at l’Estaque | 1950.3 | Edward Molyneux [1891–1974] Paris and Monte Carlo, by 1939 |
| Antoine Coypel | The Finding of Moses | 1978.2 | European private collection With Heim Gallery, London (by 1977), from whom purchased in 1978. |
| Henri-Edmond Cross | The Return of the Fisherman(Le Pêcheur Provençal) | 1953.271 | Deposited by the artist at Galerie Druet, Paris
Sale Atelier H. E. Cross, Paris (Hotel Drouot), 28 October 1921, lot 30
Collection Maximilien Luce (1858-1941), Paris
Collection Frédéric Luce, Paris
With Wildenstein Galleries, New York, from whom purchased in 1953. |
| Giorgio de Chirico | Self-Portrait | 1938.1 | Purchased from Theodore Schempp, New York, in 1938. |
| Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) | Landscape with Flight into Egypt | 1968.51 | Collection H. Pearson, Datchett, Windsor
Possibly sale Gen. Thiebaut, London (Christie's), 13 June 1817, lot 61 (£77.14, to Gray)
Possibly sale London (Christie's), 1 May 1830 (as ÒA small Landscape, with the Flight into Egypt, with classical Buildings in the distanceÓ)
With Ferdinando Peretti, London, from whom purchased in 1968 |
| Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran | Portrait of Philippe Burty | 1994.9 | Probably by descent to the daughter of the sitter, Madeleine Haviland, née Burty
Collection Mme. Maric-Haviland, Paris
With Shepherd Gallery, New York (1983)
Sale New York (Christie's), 1 March 1990, lot 19
With Christopher J. Robinson, New York, from whom acquired in 1994. |
| Giovanni Battista Gaulli | Death of Adonis | 1966.2 | With Leger Galleries, London (1953-54)
With Giovanni Salocci, Florence (1956-57)
Private collection, New York (by 1962)
With Gualteiro Volterra, Florence, from whom purchased in 1966. |
| Jan van Goyen | Landscape with Dunes | 1941.76 | Collection Dr. Johan Focke, Bremen (as cited in 1928 sales catalogue, below)
Collection Fraulein M. Focke, Bremen (by 1904)
Sale Amsterdam (F. Muller), 12 December 1922, lot 159 ($1500)
Collection Mrs. A. Rowe, New York
Sale New York (American Art Association), 26 April 1928, lot 79, ill. ($1275)
With Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam (1928, acquired by them in London)
With M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., London and New York (1929-30)
With E. J. van Wisselingh, Amsterdam (1932)
Collection Kuenxe Graef? (noted by Knoedler, 1941)
With M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., New York, from whom purchased in 1941. |
| Italian (Florentine) 14th century | Crucifix | 1942.129 | Graf Wilczek, Castle Kreuzenstein near Vienna
With E. A. Silberman Galleries in New York (1936), from whom purchased in 1942. |
| Alexej von Jawlensky | Head of a Woman | 1955.23 | Collection Fernand Graindorge, Liège (1954)
With Theodore Schempp, New York, from whom purchased in 1955. |
| Jacob Jordaens | An Oracle | 1964.35 | Possibly identical with Òde Offerande,Ó listed among the modelli or designs for tapestries in the inventory of the collection of the tapestry merchant Michiel Wauters, Antwerp, 16 October 1679
Colletion Arthur Holford, London
Sale London (ChristieÕs), 29 November 1963, lot 72 (£1470)
With Frederick Mont, Inc., New York, from whom purchased in 1964. |
| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner | Self-Portrait as a Soldier | 1950.29 | Städtische Galerie, Dresden (1916-19)
With Kunsthandlung Schames, Frankfurt (1919)
Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt (1919)
On loan to the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt (inv. S.G. 299 in 1919 inventory book and 1924 catalogue) until 1937
Confiscated by the National Socialists and removed to a Berlin warehouse in 1937 (inv. 15999)
Collection Dr. Kurt Feldhausser (1943-45)
Collection Mrs. Marie-Louise Feldhausser, his mother (1945-?)
Sold to Gallery E. Weyhe, New York, from whom purchased in 1950. |
| Paul Klee | The Kettledrum Organ | 1944.21 | Purchased by the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau, in February 1931, for 2000 RM
Confiscated by the National Socialists, 1937 (inv. 10922)
Purchased by Karl Buchholz in Berlin, 18 February 1939, for $120
With Buchholz Galleries, New York, from whom purchased in 1944. |
| Gustav Klimt | Portrait of a Lady | 1958.157 | Private collection, Vienna
With Galerie St. Etienne, New York (1950), from whom purchased in July 1958. |
| Jacopo Ligozzi | Portable Altar in a Carrying Case | 1958.1 | Collection Bauer, Vienna
With F. Kleinberger & Co., New York, from whom purchased in 1958. |
| Mariotto di Nardo | Adoration of the Magi | 1943.118 | Collection Marchese Franzoni, Genoa
With N. Acquavella, New York (by 1940) from whom purchased in 1943. |
| Master of the Sterzing Altarpiece | Saint Mary Magdalene | 1941.75 | Collection Armando Sabatello, Rome
With Ars Antiqua, New York
Collection Samuel H. Kress, New York (1950)
Given to the museum in 1961. |
| Pier Francesco Mola | Mercury Putting Argus to Sleep | 1961.85 | Collection Armando Sabatello, Rome
With Ars Antiqua, New York
Collection Samuel H. Kress, New York (1950)
Given to the museum in 1961. |
| Claude Monet | Wisteria | 1960.5 | Collection Michel Monet, Giverny
Collection Katia Granoff, Paris
With Paul Rosenberg and Company, New York, from whom purchased in 1960. |
| Jean-Baptiste Oudry | A Young Rabbit and Partridge Hung by the Feet | 1982.47 | With Paul Cailleux, Paris (1932)
With Bensimon, Inc., New York
Collection Mr. and Mrs. André Meyer (by 1962)
Sale Meyer, New York (Sotheby's), 22 October 1980, lot 10
With H. Schickman Gallery, New York, from whom purchased in 1982. |
| Pablo Picasso | Glass of Absinthe | 1947.36 | Collection Ambroise Vollard, Paris
With Galerie Pierre, Paris
Collection Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York (1937-44)
Sale New York (Parke-Bernet), 11 April 1946, lot 29
Collection Theodore Schempp, New York (1946-47), from whom purchased in 1947 |
| Jusepe de Ribera | Blind Old Beggar | 1955.9 | Collection Dr. Carvalho, Château de Villandry, France (1927)
Sale Tours, 19 November 1953, lot 76
With Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, from whom purchased in 1955 |
| Peter Paul Rubens | The Finding of Erichthonius | 1944.96 | Collection Duc de Richelieu, 1671
Sale Morel, Paris, 19 April 1786 (held 3 May 1786), lot 34 (ÒUne jardinière accroupie et appuyée sur le couvercle dÕun panier rempli de fleurs. Elle est vêtue dÕun corsage et dÕune jupe de satin jaune . . . 42 x 38 pouces; 301 livres, to Vicomte de ChamgrandÓ)
Sale de Proly, Chamgrand et al., Paris (Paillet), 20 March 1787, lot 30 (723 livres, to Marichale le Bois)
Collection R. A. C. Goodwin-Austen
Sale George Smith, John Tobin et al., London (Christie's), 27 May 1882, lot 98 (erroneously as from the Orléans Gallery; £157.10 to Lesser)
Collection Archibald Coats, Woodside, Paisley
His sale, London (Christie's), 3 July 1914, lot 126 (as ÒFloraÓ and formerly in the Orlean collection; £75.2 to Collings)
Unidentified sale, London, 1939
With A. F. Mondschein, New York, from whom purchased in 1944. |
| Jan Steen | Merry Company | 1957.14 | Collection Dukes of Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg (possibly acquired by Herzog [Duke] Ernst II von Sachsen [1745-1804], later Dukes of Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha
Herzogliches Gemäldegalerie, Gotha (inv. 257)
Collection of Helmhold Hoffman, Germany
With G. Cramer Oude Kunst, The Hague, from whom purchased in 1957. |
| Vrancke van der Stockt | Kneeling Donor with Saint John the Baptist | 1942.128 | Collection H. Oppenheimer, London
His sale, London, 24 July 1936, lot 6 (as by Aelbert Bouts)
Art market, Vienna (1937)
With E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, from whom purchased in 1942. |
| David Teniers the Younger | Saints Anthony and Paul in a Landscape | 1973.9 | Private collection, France
Collection Herman Göring
Munich, Collecting Point (1946), no. 5887
French Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Paris (for restitution)
With Heim Gairac Gallery, Paris
With David M. Koetser Gallery, Zurich, from whom purchased in 1973. |
| Esaias van de Velde | Summer Landscape | 1958.42 | Collection van Diemen, Amsterdam
Collection Anna Maria van Diemen (later [from 1675] wife of Gerolamo Paressi)
By descent to Marchese Raffaello Mansi Orsetti, Lucca (1928)
Purchased in Spain by Frederick Mont, Inc., New York (in association with Newhouse Gallery, New York), from whom purchased in 1958 |
| Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne | Allegory of Poverty | 1960.94 | Collection Dukes of Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg (possibly acquired by Herzog [Duke] Ernst II von Sachsen [1745-1804]), later Dukes of Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha
Herzogliches Gemäldegalerie, Gotha (inv. 228)
With Hans Cramer Oude Kunst, The Hague, from whom purchased in 1960. |
| Adriaen van der Werff and Henrik van Limborch | Jacob Blessing the Sons of Joseph | 1963.30 | Sale Hoogeveen et al., Amsterdam (Van der Linden & De Winter), 5 June 1765, lot 5 (_560, to de Winter; with pendant, lot 6)
Possibly offered for sale by Mettra, Paris (1767) for 10,530 livres, with pendant
Bildergalerie, Sanssouci, Potsdam (by 1770), with pendant
Königliche Museum (later the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum), Berlin (c. 1837-1906), with pendant
Returned to the private collection of the Princes of Hohenzollern (1906-1925), with pendant
Private collection, London
Purchased sale London (Christie's), 24 May 1963, lot 152. |
