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 22
Kiste Nr. München Fuhrerbau 14
Tableau No. 28 [29]
Artist: Salomon de Bray
Medium: Paintings
Title: Sich kämmende junge Frau, Halbakt [Jeune femme se coiffant; Young woman combing herself]
Description: Holz
54 x 46 cm (55 x 46,5 cm)
Tableau No. 28 [29]
Das gleiche Modell wie die Gärtnerin in Dresden (bezeichnet und datiert 1635).
Seltene Darstellung, breit und flüssig gemalt.
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Provenance and Comments: The painting was renamed Jeune Femme Nue, à Mi-corps, en Train de se Peigner and now resides at the Musée du Louvre in Paris (inv.no. RF 1995 3).
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; RG 260 M1946 Reel 134 NARA, www.fold3.com.
Measurements: 55 x 46,5 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.: 18378 (1946-01-03)
Repatriated to France? Yes
Repatriation date: 1946-03-27
Restituted? Yes
Restitution date: 1946-10-18
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