| Owner: | Consorts Schloss — Paris, France |
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| 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 261 |
| Artist: | Willem Cornelisz Duyster |
| Medium: | Paintings |
| Title: | Chevalier et dame lisant une lettre [young woman reading big scales, gambe and a gentleman] |
| Description: | 58 x 49 cm Oil on panel |
| Literature: | The MCCP lists the artist as "Oyster" or "Dyster." The actual artist is "Duyster." |
| Provenance and Comments: | This painting fell into the hands of Victor Mandl in Paris who sold it to Maria Almas Dietrich in January 1944. Thence, Dietrich sold it to Ernst Buchner. Apparently, MCCP officials did not really understand the plunder of the Schloss collection since the MCCP card indicates that the painting was "acquired" from Schloss. It is listed on the French Répertoire des biens spoliés. The painting was discovered by Edgar Breitenbach at the Pinakotek of Munich and returned to the MCCP in May 1946. |
| Archival Sources: | Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP) database at www.dhm.de; RV 100bis/A25, 209SUP/384/P17, 209SUP_1015, MAEE, Paris, France |
| Measurements: | 58 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, Parisanque Dreyfus, Parisanque Dreyfus, Paris, France |
| Transfer date: | 1943-08-11 |
| Transfer place: | Lefranc/Victor Mandl |
| Transfer date: | 1944-01-00 |
| Transfer place: | Ernst Buchner, Munich |
| Transfer date: | 1944-02-00 |
| Transfer place: | Maria Almas Dietrich, Munich |
| Munich No.: | 31413 |
| Repatriated to France? | Yes |
| Repatriation date: | 1948-12-03 |
| Restituted? | Yes |
| Restitution date: | 1949-05-31 |
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