| Owner: | Fritz Mannheimer — Vaucresson, France |
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| Collection: | (Mannheimer, Vichy) Fritz Mannheimer, manager of the Dutch branch of the Berlin-based bank, Mendelssohn & Cie, had residences in Amsterdam and Vaucresson, right outside of Paris. He spent his later years mostly in France and died in August 1939, right after getting married to his Brazilian-born nurse. Title to his collection was complicated by the fact that he placed most of the 3000 works and objects under his wife's name and used the bank's assets to acquire them through a British subsidiary called "Artistic". This is one of the rare instances whereby the Reich leadership acquired a "confiscated" Jewish collection. The Mannheimer collections were plundered in Holland (1940-1941) and in France (1944). |
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| Artist: | Jean-Baptiste Chardin |
| Medium: | Paintings |
| Title: | Les bulles de savon |
| Description: | cadre en bois sculpté signée à gauche haut 61 x 65 cm |
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| Provenance and Comments: | After its restitution, this painting ended up in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York in 1949 after having been acquired from the Dutch State by the Wildenstein gallery. |
| Archival Sources: | RA 10, MAEE, Paris, France |
| Measurements: | 61 x 65 cm |
| Framed? | Yes |
| Signed? | Yes |
| Intake place: | Sequestre, Jane Mannheimer |
| Transfer place: | MbF, Hotel Majestic |
| Transfer date: | 1944-05-13 |
| Transfer place: | Berchtesgaden |
| Transfer date: | 1944-05-14 |
| Repatriated to France? | Yes |
| Repatriation date: | 1946-01-30 |
| Restituted? | Yes |
| Restitution date: | 1948-01-29 |
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