Poverty

From the collection of duke August of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (cf. 1826 inventory). Before August 25, 1943 presumably transferred from the Museum Gotha to Reinhardsbrunn Castle and kept there until about mid-July 1945 or until mid-July 1945 in the Duke's Museum in Gotha. When the collection was re-inventoried after 1945, the painting was no longer in the inventory, and no sales documents exist. According to a letter dated April 16, 1962 from Irene Geismeier, Staatl. Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, purchased at the end of 1960 from the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin/USA. Information according to Art Quarterly, Spring 1961, page 96. Gotha also owned the counterpart to this loss, an Allegory of Wealth (oak, 52 x 41 cm, inv.no. Aldenhoven 1890, no. 227), which also counts as a loss during the war.