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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

Literature / Source
https://kunstverwaltung.bund.de/SharedDocs/Provenienzen/DE/keine/KVdB61555.html
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