Provenance in the Art Museum: Oberlin Allen Memorial Art Museum

The Allen Memorial Art Museum (AMAM) has published thirty artworks on the Nazi Era Provenance Internet Portal (NEPIP).

In this post, we see what we can learn about the history of these artworks using modern digital art history tools.

Cailleux in the Emile Buehrle Collection

Two of the artworks on the Buehrle Foundation Website mention Cailleux in their provenance: François-André Vincent's "Young Lady with a Turban" and Francesco Guardi's The Crucifixion.

Their provenance is reproduced below:

The Cailleux Project: Norton Simon Museum in Los Angeles, USA

The name "Cailleux" appears in the provenance of at least nine artworks in the Norton Simon Museum:

Cailleux in the provenance of artworks listed by the German Lost Art Foundation

The German Lost Art Foundation lists 17 artworks that mention Cailleux in the provenance, most of which are "acquisitions for the so-called Führer Museum in Linz".

Cailleux in the 1976 Toledo European Paintings Catalog

As part of the Cailleux Project, we collect references to Cailleux in catalogs. The 1976 Toledo Museum of Art European Paintings (introduction by Otto Wittmann) contains numerous mentions of Cailleux. 

These are reproduced below.