| 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 242 Kiste Nr. München Fuhrerbau 9 |
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| Artist: | [1719] 1749, Jacob de Wit [Joseph Sauvage] | ||||||||
| Medium: | Paintings | ||||||||
| Title: | Enfants jouant avec une chèvre | ||||||||
| Description: | 62 x 31 cm Grisaille Signé à droite sur un fut et daté de 1749 [1719] |
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| Provenance and Comments: | Supplemental information provided by the French Ministry of Culture. This work was placed in a crate at the Jeu de Paume. Sources contradict themselves as to its presence in Munich and if it was stolen from the Führerbau on 29-30 April 1945. Some sources are adamant that it never arrived in Munich, while others attest to the contrary. Moreover, Schloss 242 appears on some lists of the Schloss collection and not on others between 1943 and 1945. Still, this item was never recovered as well as its pendant, Schloss 241. | ||||||||
| Archival Sources: | Bundesarchiv, B323/1042; RV 103, MAEE, Paris, France; Répertoire des biens spoliés | ||||||||
| Measurements: | 62 x 31 cm | ||||||||
| Signed? | 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: | Jeu de Paume | ||||||||
| Transfer date: | 1943-11-03 | ||||||||
| Transfer place: | Führerbau, Munich | ||||||||
| Transfer date: | 1943-11-24 | ||||||||
| Restituted? | No | ||||||||
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