| 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 59 Kiste Nr. München Fuhrerbau 10 Tableau No. 81 |
| Artist: | Barent Fabritius |
| Medium: | Paintings |
| Title: | Bileams Esel [L’âne de Bileam; The ass of Bileam / Balaam's Ass] |
| Description: | Holz 48 x 37 cm (49,5 x 40 cm) Sehr schönes Bild. Um unteren Rande bezeichnet und datiert: “B. Frabritius 1672”. Auf einem aufgeklebtem Zettel wird auf ein Bild in Frankfurt verwiesen, auf dem der alte Mann ebenfalls vorkommt. Catalog d. Gemälde-Galerie des Städelschen Kunstinstituts in Frankfurt a.M. 1900. Nr.196. Previous attributions: Carel Fabritius, Thoré-Bürger sale, 5 December 1892 |
| Literature: | Catalog d. Gemälde-Galerie des Städelschen Kunstinstituts in Frankfurt a.M. 1900, Nr.196. Wurzbach, A. v.: Niederl. Künstlerlexikon I, 1906, S.525. |
| Provenance and Comments: | Versteigerung Burger Thoré, Paris, 5.Dezember 1892, Nr.11, 420 frs., als Carel Fabritius. Wurzbach erwähnt das Bild nach dem Versteigerungskatalog. |
| 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. |
| Measurements: | 49,5 x 40 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: | Fuhrerbau, Munich |
| Transfer date: | 1943-11-24 |
| Munich No.: | 19463 (1946-02-07) |
| Repatriated to France? | Yes |
| Repatriation date: | 1946-03-27 |
| Restituted? | Yes |
| Restitution date: | 1946-10-18 |
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