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 227
Kiste Nr. München Fuhrerbau 13
Artist: 1678, Jan Vermeer the Younger
Medium: Paintings
Title: Sheep and goats under trees
Description: 33 x 42 cm

Oil on canvas

1678
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Provenance and Comments: According to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP) file, this painting by Vermeer the Younger was acquired for the Linz Museum, stored at the Führerbau, stolen by unknown individuals, recovered from Alfred Fischer of Munich by MFAA investigator Edgar Breitenbach and brought to the MCCP on 26 November 1948.
Archival Sources: Bundesarchiv, B323/1042; www.dhm.de; RV 100bis/A25, RV 103, 209SUP_carton 4d39, MAEE, Paris, France
Measurements: 33 x 42 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
Munich No.: 48227
Repatriated to France? Yes
Repatriation date: 1948-12-03
Restituted? Yes
Restitution date: 1949-05-31
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