| 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 29 Kiste Nr. Muenchen Fuhrerbau 16 |
| Artist: | Brouwer |
| Medium: | Paintings |
| Title: | Peasants smoking near a fireplace [La tabagie] |
| Description: | 31,7 x 53,2 cm Oil on panel |
| Literature: | |
| Provenance and Comments: | According to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP) file, this painting by Brouwer was acquired for the Linz Museum and recovered in the British Zone of Occupation, deposited at Schloss Dyck before being sent to the MCCP on 14 August 1947. It was sold at auction on 25 May 1949. |
| Archival Sources: | www.dhm.de; RG 260 M1949 Reel 13 NARA; 209SUP_carton 4d39, MAEE, Paris, France |
| Measurements: | 31,7 x 53,2 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 |
| Transfer place: | Schloss Dyck |
| Linz No.: | 3108 |
| Munich No.: | 44623 |
| Repatriated to France? | Yes |
| Repatriation date: | 1948-01-21 |
| Restituted? | Yes |
| Restitution date: | 1948-02-11 |
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