| 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 264 MNR 726 |
| Artist: | Copy of Frans Hals |
| Medium: | Paintings |
| Title: | Portrait of a woman [Portrait de femme] |
| Description: | 29 x 25 cm |
| Literature: | The number "264" corresponds to a number assigned to this painting by the Germans on a list of seized Schloss works dated from 1943. According to the MCCP card, the Schloss collection number for this work is 99. The MCCP has a photographic reproduction of this work, which the Bundesarchiv in Koblenz does not appear to carry. |
| Provenance and Comments: | Dr. Göpel, who played a major role in the confiscation and shipment of the Schloss collection to the Fuhrerbau in Munich, waystation for Hitler's Linz Museum Project, 'acquired this painting from a French dealer" in 1944. This painting might be the same one as MNR 726 which the French government returned to the Schloss family on 25 October 1951. |
| Archival Sources: | www.dhm.de |
| Measurements: | 29 x 25 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: | Lefranc/Buitenweg |
| Transfer date: | 1943-12-00 |
| Transfer place: | Dr. Gopel |
| Transfer date: | 1944-00-00 |
| Transfer place: | Alt Aussee |
| Aussee No.: | 3668 |
| Munich No.: | 5019 |
| Repatriated to France? | Yes |
| Repatriation date: | 1946-06-25 |
| Restituted? | Yes |
| Restitution date: | 1951-10-25 |
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