| 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 |
| Artist: | Joost van Craesbeck [Craesbeeck] [Craesebeck] |
| Medium: | Paintings |
| Title: | Joueurs peu scrupuleux [Les tricheurs] |
| Description: | 30 x 34 cm |
| Literature: | Collection Princess Woronzow, not in sales catalogue, Florence, 23 April 1900; By 1910 with Adolphe Schloss. |
| Provenance and Comments: | Confiscated from the Chateau de Chambon by Vichy authorities in coordination with Nazi officials in April 1943 and taken to Paris, 10 August 1943; Pre-emptively transferred to the Louvre, 20 August 1943; Restituted to the Schloss heirs in July 1946; Sold at Galerie Charpentier, Paris, December 5, 1951, lot 12, to Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc.(New York, New York); J. Paul Getty [American, 1892 - 1976 (Malibu, California; Sutton Place, Surrey, England)] 1951; Donated to the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1970. |
| Archival Sources: | RG 260 M1949 Reel 13 NARA |
| Measurements: | 30 x 34 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: | Louvre |
| Transfer date: | 1943-08-20 |
| Restituted? | Yes |
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