Owner: Consorts Schloss — Paris, France
Collection: (Schloss) Adolphe Schloss-The Schloss collection was assembled with great care by Adolphe Schloss, a German Jew who settled in Paris in the late 19th century. In August 1939, the collection was transferred to a vault at the Chateau de Chambon (Corrèze) for safekeeping. On April 16, 1943, a combination of Nazi policemen and French officials from the CGQJ worked together to confiscate the Schloss collection and transfer it to Paris for processing. There, the collection was split into three parts--the largest going to the Linz Museum project. That part of the collection (262 paintings) was transferred to the Führerbau (Munich) on 24 November 1943 where it remained untouched until 29-30 April 1945 when local Munich citizens broke into the building housing the collection and hundreds of other works and stole everything. Nearly half of the Schloss paintings are still unrestituted.
Inventory No.: Schloss 99
Kiste Nr. München Fuhrerbau 7
Artist: Attribué à Gerrit van Honthorst ou Palamedesz
Medium: Paintings
Title: Portrait of a woman [Portrait de femme]
Description: 63 x 49 cm
Oil on panel
Literature: French, Dutch, and American sources do not agree on the exact attribution of this painting. The French and the Dutch attribute this painting to van Honthorst or Palamedesz.
Provenance and Comments: The French government does not list this work as being restituted to the heirs of Adolphe Schloss.
Archival Sources: Bundesarchiv, B323/1039; RV 103, MAEE, Paris, France
Measurements: 63 x 49 cm
Intake place: 38 avenue Henri Martin, Paris
Transfer place: Chateau de Chambon, Laguenne, Corrèze
Transfer date: 1939-08-20
Transfer place: Banque Dreyfus, Paris, France
Transfer date: 1943-08-11
Transfer place: Jeu de Paume
Transfer date: 1943-11-03
Transfer place: Führerbau, Munich
Transfer date: 1943-11-24
Repatriated to France? No
Restituted? No
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