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 190
Kiste Nr. München Fuhrerbau 15
Tableau No.225
Artist: Jacob van Ruisdael [Ruysdael]
Medium: Paintings
Title: Paysage d’hiver; Winter landscape with windmill,
Description: Leinwand.
35,5 x 44,5 cm (36 x 45,5 cm; 37 x 46 cm)
Wunderschönes Bild, ganz rein und durchsichtig, besonders zart und sicher das links am Horizont sich hinziehende Dorf.
Literature: HdG IV, Nr.1002 (von HdG selbst gesehen); Smith, 164; J. Rosenberg: Jacob van Ruisdael (1928). Nr. 622.
Provenance and Comments: Slg.van der Pot (nach Sedelmeyer); Slg.Allen, Edinburgh; Slg.Dennistoun; Ch.Sedelmeyer, Paris, Cat.of 100 paintings, 1895, Nr.37. This painting was bought by Frits Lugt at the 1949 Charpentier sale and since has been a part of the Fondation Custodia - Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, inv./cat.no. 6104.
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: 36 x 45,5 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.: 38511 (1946-10-12)
Repatriated to France? Yes
Repatriation date: 1946-10-30
Restituted? Yes
Restitution date: 1946-11-23
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