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Portrait of a blond gentleman with letter (Philipp Heidemann?)

Lost Art-ID
478469
Artist
Unknown (Franconian)
Title
Portrait of a blond gentleman with letter (Philipp Heidemann?)
Object type
Painting
Group of reported objects
Painting
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Height
71.30 cm
Width
54.00 cm
Description

Canvas relined and mounted on new stretcher; paper tape glued on frame to cover edges of canvas.

recto, inscription on letter: “Herrn / Herrn Philipp Heidemann / in / T. [illegible] [N]ürnberg”.

frame, verso, at centre, inscribed in red: [illegible]; stretcher, inscribed in red: "2[?]7154[or "9"] [illegible]“, above inscribed in white chalk: “2217”

Holding
Bundesbesitz
Provenance

(…)

By latest July 1944: Hildebrand Gurlitt, Dresden (per Gurlitt Papers)

Thence by descent to Cornelius Gurlitt, Munich/Salzburg

6 May 2014 until 10 December 2021: Stiftung Kunstmuseum Bern

Since 10 December 2021: Federal Republic of Germany, transfer of ownership as per agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany, the Stiftung Kunstmuseum Bern and the Free State of Bavaria from 24 November 2014

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