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A river landscape
Details
JAN VAN DER MEER II (HAARLEM 1656-1705)
van Haarlem
A river landscape
signed 'JV meer' (lower right)
oil on panel
12 ¾ x 19 ¼ in. (32.3 x 48.9 cm.)
van Haarlem
A river landscape
signed 'JV meer' (lower right)
oil on panel
12 ¾ x 19 ¼ in. (32.3 x 48.9 cm.)
Provenance
Adolphe Schloss (1842-1910), Paris, inv. no. S270, and by inheritance to his wife,
Lucie Haas Schloss (1858-1938), and by whom bequeathed to her children,
Maguerite, Lucien, Henry and Juliette Schloss, and by whom stored for safekeeping at Château de Chambon, Laguenne, 20 August 1939; from where seized by Vichy officials and German security agents 16 April 1943. and transferred to the Banque de France, Limoges, arriving the 24 April 1943, inv. no. S226.
Transferred to CCQJ headquarters, Paris, 11 August 1943, from where taken with a selection of 262 paintings destined for the Schloss Linz the 2 November 1943 to the Jeu de Paume, Paris.
Transported 24 November 1943 to the Führerbau, Munich, from where stolen the 1 May 1945 by,
Andreas Full, Munich, from whom bought by,
Ludwig Lautenbacher, Munich, by whom sold to,
Paul Winkler, Munich, by whom sold to,
Baroness Bortnowsky-Jaroszwicz, who relinquished the painting to the allied forces, by whom it was transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP no.44763) 5 September 1947, from where it was restituted to the family, by whom sold in the following,
Soixante-dix tableaux de la collection de feu M. Adolphe Schloss; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 25 May 1949, lot 62, as Jan Vermeer van Haarlem I.
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam (according to a label on the reverse).
Mr. and Mrs. J. Seward Johnson, New York; their sale, Sotheby's, New York, 8 January 1981, lot 17, as Jan Vermeer van Haarlem I.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 7 June 1984, lot 72.
Lucie Haas Schloss (1858-1938), and by whom bequeathed to her children,
Maguerite, Lucien, Henry and Juliette Schloss, and by whom stored for safekeeping at Château de Chambon, Laguenne, 20 August 1939; from where seized by Vichy officials and German security agents 16 April 1943. and transferred to the Banque de France, Limoges, arriving the 24 April 1943, inv. no. S226.
Transferred to CCQJ headquarters, Paris, 11 August 1943, from where taken with a selection of 262 paintings destined for the Schloss Linz the 2 November 1943 to the Jeu de Paume, Paris.
Transported 24 November 1943 to the Führerbau, Munich, from where stolen the 1 May 1945 by,
Andreas Full, Munich, from whom bought by,
Ludwig Lautenbacher, Munich, by whom sold to,
Paul Winkler, Munich, by whom sold to,
Baroness Bortnowsky-Jaroszwicz, who relinquished the painting to the allied forces, by whom it was transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP no.44763) 5 September 1947, from where it was restituted to the family, by whom sold in the following,
Soixante-dix tableaux de la collection de feu M. Adolphe Schloss; Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 25 May 1949, lot 62, as Jan Vermeer van Haarlem I.
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam (according to a label on the reverse).
Mr. and Mrs. J. Seward Johnson, New York; their sale, Sotheby's, New York, 8 January 1981, lot 17, as Jan Vermeer van Haarlem I.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 7 June 1984, lot 72.
Literature
Répertoire des biens spoliés durant la guerre 1939-1945, vol. 2, Tableaux et tapisseries, Berlin, 1947, p. 287, no. 6459, illustrated, as 'Jan Vermeer'.
Exhibited
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1972.
Brought to you by
Csongor Kis
AVP, Specialist
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