| 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: | Jan Gossaert [Jan van Mabuse] |
| Medium: | Paintings |
| Title: | Vénus tenant Cupidon par la main |
| Description: | Bois forme cintrée 34 x 24 cm Le tableau a conservé son cadre d'époque sur lequel on lit: "Mate effrones homines superosque lacessere soet matri parcis; Parcito ne percas MDXXI [Enfant effronté accoutumé à harceler les hommes et les dieux, tu n'épargnes pas ta mère; épargne-la de peur de périr à ton tour. 1521] |
| Literature: | Exposition de Bruges 1907 |
| Provenance and Comments: | This painting was one of a group of 49 works set aside for the Louvre and deposited at its Laboratory on 20 August 1943 |
| Archival Sources: | R32-3-sd3, French Ministry of Culture, Paris, France |
| Measurements: | 34 x 24 cm |
| Framed? | Yes |
| 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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