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The Ladies Reading a Letter
Lost Art-ID
616202
Artist / Creator
Winterhalter, Franz Xaver
Birth
1805.04.20, Menzenschwand (Schwarzwald)
Death
1873.07.08, Frankfurt (Main)
Place of activity
Karlsruhe; Rom; Paris; München Erw.-landschaft: England
Title
The Ladies Reading a Letter
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Height
80.00 cm
Width
60.00 cm
Description
oval
Provenance
Baron Mor Lipot Herzog, Budapest; Baroness Mor Lipot Herzog, Budapest, 1934 by descent; Herzog Andras, Erzsebet, Istvan, 1940, by descent; Lost during WWII - a confiscation as a result of Nazi persecution is suspected; whereabouts unknown
Literature / Source
Németek által elhurcolt műkincsek [Artworks carried away by Germans] 67.896/1947, Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary] XXIX-L-2-r. Baroness Alfonz Weiss, No. 20.; Artworks handed over to the Jewish Ministerial Commissioner. 1944. Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary] 151/1949. Private collecion, No.24 (from the owner Herzog Erzsébet); Wer kann Auskunft geben über den Verbleib nachstendend abgebildeter bzw. beschriebener Bilde der früheren Sammlung Baron Herzog, Budapest, welche seit der deutscher Besetzung von 1944 wermiesst werden? „Die Weltkunst” XX. 1. Oktober, 1950. Nr. 19.; Mravik, László, The "Sacco Di Budapest" and Depredation of Hungary, 1938-1949: Works of Art Missing from Hungary as a Result of the Second World War : Looted, Smuggled, Captured, Lost and Destroyed Art Works, Books and Archival Documents : Preliminary and Provisional Catalog, 1998, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest. No. 19910, p. 328.
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