Adoration / Birth of Christ / Christmas
In the center of a hilly landscape with a lake and a city (allegedly Constance) are Mary and Joseph with the baby Jesus in the middle, in the background right three herds in a ruin. Numerous angels in the foreground.
Provenance characteristics: on parqueted back label of the art shop Goudstikker / Miedl with the number "H 123"; uninterpreted label in stamp format, inscription mostly demolished
around 1934: seen in an unknown place by Prof. Alfred Stange, Bonn
before 1939: in unknown possession
1939: Xaver Scheidwimmer (Munich), sold to Walter Bornheim, Munich
1939: Sale to the 'collection' Hermann Göring (without RM-No.)
1944: in the Vermeer exchange tax to Goudstikker / Miedl Amsterdam, in "H-list" led as "H 123"
End of 1944 / beginning of 1945: due to fear of an attack on the Amsterdam Art trade shipping with some other paintings targeting Bad Tölz, Depot Franz Schneller
1945 to 1958: unknown
1958: offered for sale through the art dealer Frederik Muller & Co, at the time deposited in the Rijks Museum
9.4.1959: Purchase for the Städtische Bodensee-Museum as an peputed restitution good
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