Anoniem (kopie naar Bartholomeus van der Helst) Anonymous (copy after Bartholomeus van der Helst)
after 1656
Physical characteristics
Oil on canvas
72,5 x 65 cm
Reconstruction of provenance history
Vóór 1941-02
: Private collection
:
: Museum inventory
1941-02 <> 1945-05-05
: Goudstikker/Miedl (art dealer), Amsterdam
:
: Museum inventory; Goudstikker/Miedl inventory card
Vóór 1955
: Joseph M. Morpurgo (art dealer), Amsterdam
:
: Museum inventory
1955
: Purchased by the museum from Joseph M. Morpurgo art dealer
:
: Museum inventory
1955 <> 2015-03-30
: Amsterdam Museum [nl]
:
Current restitution status
Restituted
: 2015: On 30 March 2015 the Restitutions Committee gave binding advice to restitute this painting to the legal successors of its former owner. In December 2015 this painting was restituted to the successors of its former owner.
Research findings
This painting probably belonged to a Jewish collector who felt compelled under the wartime conditions to sell some of his paintings.
The former owner of the painting fled from Berlin to the Netherlands in 1938. In 1943, he was forced to go into hiding. Early in the 1940s he had been forced to sell paintings from his collection to meet his everyday expenses. Some were sold through Jacques Goudstikker's art gallery, then directed by Alois Miedl, a German. The museum is in contact the heirs of the Jewish collector.
