| 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 (Louvre) Tableau No. 24 |
| Artist: | Esaias Boursse |
| Medium: | Paintings |
| Title: | Ländliches Mahl [Repas rustique; Peasant meal] |
| Description: | Peinture sur bois 38 x 32 cm Qualität Le Nain |
| Literature: | Bode et Bredius, Essais Boursse ein Schuler Rembrandt, Jahrbuch der K.P. Kunstsammlungen, 1905, p. 213, Repr. p. 211. |
| Provenance and Comments: | Collection Humphrey [Thomas Humphry] Ward. Exposé à la Royal Académie en 1908 no. 214, et en 1909 no. 211. Il était alors dans la collection Ward. This painting was one of a group of 49 works pre-emptively appropriated by Louvre museum officials, stored in a depot in Sourches (Sarthe) on 20 August 1943 and restituted in July 1946. The painting now resides at the Johannesburg Art Gallery in Johannesburg, South Africa. |
| 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 M1949 Reel 13, NARA, www.fold3.com. |
| Measurements: | 38 x 32 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: | Louvre |
| Transfer date: | 1943-08-20 |
| Restituted? | Yes |
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