| 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 117 Kiste Nr. München Fuhrerbau 13 Tableau No. 142 |
| Artist: | Judith Leyster |
| Medium: | Paintings |
| Title: | Männerbildnis [Portrait d’homme; Portrait of a gentleman] |
| Description: | Peinture sur toile (Oil on canvas), 40 x 31 cm. Bezeichnet mit Monogramm und 1652 datiert |
| Literature: | Literatur: HdG, Hauptwerke der Portraitmalerei, München, 1903; Wurzbach Bd. II, S.41 (als in Slg. Schloss); Thieme-Becker: Allgem. Lexikon d. bild. Künstler XXIII. 1929. S. 176: “Herrenbildnis, Slg. Schloβ, Paris, 1652.”; J.G. Harms: Judith Leyster, ihr Leben u. Werk (Oud Holland Jg 44. 1927, 242, Nr. 30). |
| Provenance and Comments: | Portraitausstellung Den Haag, 1903, Nr. 71; Expos. des femmes peintres du Lycéum, Paris, 1908. The painting was reattributed to Vincent Laurensz. Van der Vinne and again attributed to Judith Leyster when it was sold at Hôtel des Ventes, Genève, 2 October 2013. |
| 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. |
| Intake place: | 38 avenue Henri Martin, Paris |
| Transfer place: | Chateau de Chambon, Laguenne |
| Transfer date: | 1939-08-20 |
| Transfer place: | Banque Dreyfus, Paris |
| Transfer date: | 1943-08-11 |
| Transfer place: | Führerbau, Munich |
| Transfer date: | 1943-11-24 |
| Munich No.: | 45286 (1947-10-10) |
| Repatriated to France? | Yes |
| Repatriation date: | 1948-01-21 |
| Restituted? | Yes |
| Restitution date: | 1948-07-06 |
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