The Cailleux Project: Digital Tools to Analyze Art Provenance Texts

Who appears together with Cailleux in Cleveland's provenance texts?

In the previous post, we gathered provenances that mention the Nazi-era Red Flag Name "Cailleux" for two museums, the NGA and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

What does it mean to find Cailleux in art provenance research?

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Jean Bernard Restout
c. 1771
Cleveland Museum of Art
http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1963.502

What does it mean to find the name "Cailleux" in a Nazi-era provenance, an artwork listed by a museum on NEPIP (the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal) or an artwork whose provenance shows a gap or uncertainty for the years 1933-1945?

In this series of posts, we will explore the name "Cailleux" where it appears in art provenances throughout the world.

Provenance: National Gallery of Canada

As part of the Canadian Provenance Research Project, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottowa has published the provenance for selected European artworks on its website's provenance research page. 

Which names (or words) appear with the most frequency in the provenances of these European artworks? 

What does it mean to find André Schoeller in the provenance of an artwork?

André Schoeller in 1946 ALIU Red Flag Network

The investigators of the Art Looting Investigation Unit linked the name of André Schoeller to notorious Nazi art looters Bruno Lohse and Adolf Wuester, as well as a highly suspicious art dealer named Petrides.  

What does it mean to find André Schoeller in the provenance of an artwork? Or as the author of a catalog which contains provenance information?

To which person does the name "André Schoeller" refer?

There is the André Schoeller (1879–1955) who was arrested for his role in Nazi art looting during the Occupation, and there is his son, also named André Schoeller, who died in 2015 amid praise for his art expertise.

In this post we attempt to clarify the different André Schoeller(s), gathering archives, news articles and authority files. The update is ongoing...

Art Dealers: Julius H. Weitzner in RKD provenance

Provenance Dataset for Art Provenance Research and Network Analysis

Julius H. Weitzner is an art dealer whose name appears in many provenances throughout the world. 

Below are artworks whose provenance, as published by the RKD, mentions Julius H. Weitzner.

Although the list is not complete, it suggests the kind of impact one art dealer can have on the diffusion of artworks. We will return to this dataset later for network analysis.