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Portrait of Two Ladies

Lost Art-ID
569111
Artist
Waldmüller, Ferdinand Georg
Birth
1793.01.15, Wien
Death
1865.08.23, Helmstreitmühle (Baden)
Place of activity
Preßburg; Agram; Wien
Title
Portrait of Two Ladies
Datierung
1831
Object type
Painting
Group of reported objects
Painting
Material / Technique
Oil ; Fabric / painted ; relined
Measures
Höhe: 95,5 (121,1) cm; Breite: 75,5 (101,3) cm
Description
recto u. r. in the painting on the seated woman's glove signed with a brush in brown: "Waldmüller 1831". 1. on stretcher bar verso u. r. rectangular label, printed with stamp [?] in black (ca. 4.2 x 4.3 cm): "[illegible]", circular border; 2. on horizontal cross bar verso l. with graphite pencil: "62", underlined; 3. on horizontal cross bar verso r. rectangular label, printed in black (3.6 x 8.9 cm): "Ferdinand Georg Walsmüller", the "s" corrected with graphite pencil with "d", next to it: "(Vienna 1793 - / Hinterbrühl near Mödling 1865) / Portrait of two women. Oil on canvas / Signed and dated lower right: / Waldmüller 1831" [inventory label]; 4. on decorative frame verso u. c. on lamination fragmentary preserved mark, in black [?]: "F[?][illegible]"; 5. on decorative frame verso u. r. rectangular label, inscribed with pen in brown, torn (3. 3 x 10.5 cm): "Waldmüller [illegible]"; 6. on decorative frame verso u. l. rectangular label, inscribed with fibre pen in black: [lender information]; 4. on decorative frame verso c. l. fragmentary preserved feature, in black [?]: "[illegible]"
Provenance

1831 - without date Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (*15.01.1793, Vienna, †23.08.1865, Hinterbrühl) [artist]

without date Lumpe family [?]

1907 at the latest - 1914 at the earliest Grete Hartmann, Vienna

14.12.1916 Imperial Royal Sales, Custody and Auction Office Dorotheum (1901 - 1923), Vienna [Auction], Lot 259

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probably 1921 - without date Abraham Wendlinger, Vienna [art dealer]

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probably no later than 05.1924 - without date Charles Sedelmeyer (*30.04.1837, Vienna, †09.08.1925, Paris) [art dealer/-in]

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without date - 09.11.1956 Hildebrand Gurlitt (*15.09.1895, Dresden, †09.11.1956, Oberhausen), Hamburg/Dresden/Aschbach/Düsseldorf [art dealer]

at the latest 28.04.1944 - at the earliest 09.1953 Raphaël Louis Félix Gérard (*04.03.1886, Colombes, †06.05.1963, Paris), Paris [art dealer], deposit

09.11.1956 - 31.01.1968 Helene Gurlitt (*01.08.1895, Dresden, †31.01.1968, Munich), Düsseldorf/Munich [art dealer], inheritance

31.01.1968 - 06.05.2014 Cornelius Gurlitt (*28.12.1932, Hamburg, †06.05.2014, Munich), Munich/Salzburg [heir to the art estate], inheritance

06.05.2014 Stiftung Kunstmuseum Bern (1879), inheritance

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