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 168
Kiste Nr. München Fuhrerbau 8
Tableau No.195
Artist: Isaak [Isaac/k] van Ostade
Medium: Paintings
Title: Rastende Reiter / Zwei haltende Reiter vor einem Dorfgasthaus [La halte de cavaliers; Halt of Horsemen]
Description: Holz.
52 x 49 cm (63 x 50 cm)
Bezeichnet rechts auf einem Brett des Hauses.
Literature: HdG III, Nr.32.
Provenance and Comments: Slg.Baron d’Aubigny, Paris; seit 1900 in Slg. Schloss. This painting last appeared for sale at Christie’s in London on 8 December 2016 as lot no.15 titled “Landscape with horsemen halting at an inn” as “Property from a European Private Collection, it sold for 197,000 GBP.
Archival Sources: BArch B323/1212, B323/56, Bundesarchiv, Koblenz, Germany; AMAE MH 117, Archives du Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, La Courneuve, France; RG 11.011M Reel 428 Fond 1524, USHMM, Washington, DC, USA.
Measurements: 63 x 50 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.: 34641 (1946-07-08)
Repatriated to France? Yes
Repatriation date: 1946-07-31
Restituted? Yes
Restitution date: 1946-10-18
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