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Head of a Roman emperor (tête d’empereur romain)
Lost Art-ID
596515
Artist
Title
Head of a Roman emperor (tête d’empereur romain)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Porphyry (lilac)
Height
20.50 cm
Description
Circumstances of loss unclear: 1941 Confiscation of the stock of Gebr. Ball at Maison Jansen, 9 rue Royale, Paris by the ERR, or at an unknown date within a raid of the appartment of the Polish diplomat count Alexander Mohl, 30, Avenue Hoche, Paris
Provenance
24.08.1905: Juliaan Oosterlinck, Industrialist and art collector, bought at Prosper Libert, Antiquitätenhändler, 15, rue Jean Breydel, Ghent (Belgium)
unknown date: Alfons Oosterlinck, Industrialist and Alderman (échevin) of the city of Ghent, Belgium
1940 (about) passed to his brother Georges Julien Oosterlinck (Paris) in order to be sold in support of the Résitance movement of which Georges Oosterlinck was part as member of the secret army and resistant movement Le Héron.
commissioned to Gebr. BALL (Maison Jansen), Paris
Verlustgeschichte
Paris, 1941 (um)
Published since
Contact
Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.
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