Clearing in the Forest of Fontainebleau
From a lake on a higher level in the centre of the picture a brook flows between old, partly rotten oaks and some rocky boulders towards the front, in which the white cloud of the stormy sky is reflected.
Inscribed at lower right: N-Diaz-68.
1868 - without date, Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña (1807 - 1876)
without date - 1877, Collection M., Paris, sold 1877 in Paris
earliest 1877 - without date, according to the catalogue raisonné in the meantime in the Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, and in the Galerie E. Le Roy, Blakeslee (New York)
without date - 1887, Collection Johann Meyer (1800 - 1887), Dresden
probably 1887 - min. 30.11.1926, Dietel Collection, probably inherited from Johann Meyer, Dresden
30.11.1926 - 08.11.1929, unknown owner, consigned to the auction house F. A. C. Prestel, Frankfurt am Main
08.11.1929 - 16./17.04.1943, unknown owner, Berlin, consigned to the auction house Hans W. Lange, Berlin
16/17.04.1943 - 1945, NSDAP (Party Chancellery), Munich, consigned to the auction house Hans W. Lange, Berlin
19.07.1945 - 10.06.1949, Central Collecting Point, Munich number 4821, seized by American Allies
10.06.1949 - 22.02.1952, Prime Minister of Bavaria, transfer in trust by American Allies
22.02.1952 - 10.12.1956, administration of cultural property in trust at the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, Munich, transfer in trust by Bavarian Prime Minister
since 10.12.1956, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Painting Collections), Munich, transfer of ownership from the Munich Finance Office to the Free State of Bavaria
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