Portrait of Mrs. von Krain




frame, recto, lower centre, brass plaque: “JOH. FRIEDR. AUGUST TISCHBEIN 1792 / Porträt v. Frau von Krain”; frame, verso, inscribed in pencil: “L OH”; matting, verso, upper right, inscribed in pencil: “900,-", “K V H / 1287", “B A A[?]”; verso, lower right, inscribed in red: "[illegible]"; passepartout (new), verso, lower right, label "Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle / der Bundesrepublik Deutschland GmbH / Reg.-Nr. 1191 / Johann Friedrich August Tischbein / Damenportrait, 1792“; backing board, verso, upper right, handwritten label: “754.”; verso, upper centre, handwritten label: “Johann Friedrich / August Tischbein / pinxit 1792.”; verso, upper center, printed label: “K. V.H. / 1387; verso, upper center, inscribed in pencil: “K V H 13[87]”; verso, centre right, inscribed in pencil: “[illegible]n Stellin” [oder “Mellin”?]; verso, lower centre, remnants of a torn label: “[illegible] [K]r[a]in“.
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Anonymous sale: Adolf Weinmüller, Vienna, 8–9 July 1940, lot 417a
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"Frau Zahnow" (per Gurlitt Papers)
By December 1944: C. G. Boerner, Leipzig
From December 1944: Hildebrand Gurlitt, half share with C. G. Boerner
By descent to Cornelius Gurlitt (1932–2014), 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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