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Portrait de Mlle Gabrielle Diot / Portrait de Melle Diot / Portrait de Mademoiselle Diot / Portrait de Gabrielle Diot / Portrait of Madam Gabrielle Diot
Pastel Portrait of a Lady in Half Figure / Portrait of a Woman / Portrait of a Woman
Lost Art-ID
606792
Artist
Degas, Edgar
Birth
1834.07.19, Paris
Death
1917.09.27, Paris
Place of activity
Rom; Paris; New Orleans
Title
Portrait de Mlle Gabrielle Diot / Portrait de Melle Diot / Portrait de Mademoiselle Diot / Portrait de Gabrielle Diot / Portrait of Madam Gabrielle Diot
Additional title
Pastel Portrait of a Lady in Half Figure / Portrait of a Woman / Portrait of a Woman
Datierung
1890
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
painted (Pastel)
Height
61.00 cm
Width
43.00 cm
Inventory number
Paul Rosenberg-Inventarnummer 3141, Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg ("ERR") Inventarnummer "MR - 22"
Description
Half length portrait of a young girl with dark hair, wearing a plaid or tartan dress in orange / brown and blue tones and with blur collar and sleeves.
Inscribed upper right: Gabrielle Diot Juillet 1890, signed centre right: Degas
Provenance
Collection Aimé Diot, Hotel Drouot, Paris, Sale, June 17, 1933, no. 5; Collection Paul Rosenberg (ref. No. 3141); unlawfully confiscated from the above at Le Castel, Floirac by Nazi art looting agents under order of Heinrich Otto Abetz, September 18, 1940, and transferred to the German Embassy, Paris; transferred from the German Embassy, Paris, to the Jeu de Paume (ERR no. MR 22); [likely received by Arthur Pfannstiel, Paris and Hamburg, April, 1941, from the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, under the direction of Dr. Bruno Lohse, and sold by July, 1942]; [Private Collection, possibly purchased in Paris, circa 1942-1943;] Private Collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above through the mediation of Gallery Matthias F. Hans, Hamburg, 1974; Gallery Matthias F. Hans, Hamburg (on consignment), 1987
Literature / Source
Inventar Commission de Récupération Artistique (Französische Kommission für die Wiederbeschaffung von Kunstwerken), Nr. 4.787 (National Archives, Records of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA) Section of the Reparations and Restitution Branch, Office of Military Government, U.S. Zone (Germany) [OMGUS], Cultural Property Claim Applications, National Archives Catalogue, 1571289, Claim F184 - Paul Rosenberg); Repertoire Bien Spoliés 1947, Nr. 102 (Le Répertoire des biens spoliés en France durant la guerre 1939-1945, tome II Tableaux, tapisseries, sculptures, avec une table des matières, un index alphabétique des artistes et une annexe ; ce volume inclut les aquarelles et les dessins, Paris, 1947 p.29); Notarized declaration (1958) of Marguerite, Micheline and Alexandre Rosenberg with regard to the values of Rosenberg pictures still missing in 1958, as signed and certified by the expert Jacques Dubourg. [Source: Paul Rosenberg Archives, New York], NR. 3141
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Contact
Marinello, Christopher A., Esq.
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