| 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 83 Kiste Nr. München Fuhrerbau 5 Tableau No. 101 |
| Artist: | Jan [Johannes] Hals |
| Medium: | Paintings |
| Title: | Männliches Bildnis / Bildnis eines 36jährigen Herrn (Kniestück) [Portrait d’homme; Portrait of a man] |
| Description: | Leinwand 110 x 75 cm (110 x 80 cm) Rechts oben die Inschrift: Aetatis suae 36, 1661. Gutes Bild. Reattributed to Victor Boucquet and renamed Man Standing Three-quarter Length, by a Table Draped with Red Cloth (c. 1661). |
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| Provenance and Comments: | Nach Notizen des Sammlers Bestimmung des Meisters von Bode für Bourgeois und Steinmeyer, wo es Schloss erwarb. The painting last appeared at the Old Masters to Modernists sale, AAG [Arts and Antiques Group] Auctioneers in Amsterdam on 15 June 2019 as lot no. 8 titled Man Standing Three-quarter Length, by a Table Draped with Red Cloth (c. 1661), as by Victor Boucquet and it was sold for €12,000. |
| 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: | 110 x 80 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 |
| Munich No.: | 7591 (1945-08-23) |
| Repatriated to France? | Yes |
| Repatriation date: | 1946-03-27 |
| Restituted? | Yes |
| Restitution date: | 1946-10-18 |
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