: Hidde Nijland (collection), Dordrecht / The Hague
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: RKD Visual Documentation no. 1402; RKD images artwork no. 29100; see A. Mak cat., Amsterdam, 21 December 1926, no. 14 (as 'La vie de nuit') (ill.) RKD images artwork no. 29100
21-12-1926
: A. Mak (auction), Amsterdam
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: RKD Visual Documentation no. 1402; RKD images artwork no. 29100; see A. Mak cat., Amsterdam, 21 December 1926, no. 14 (as 'La vie de nuit') (ill.)
1926-12-21 <> ?
: Kamerlingh Onnes, unknown
:
: RKD Visual Documentation no. 1402
Vóór 1928 <> 1939
: D.A. Hoogendijk (art dealer), Amsterdam
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: RKD Visual Documentation no. 1402; RKD images artwork no. 29100; Eere tentoonstelling Jan Toorop exhibition cat., 4-26 April 1928, Pulchri Studio, The Hague, no. 22 (as 'Nachtleven')
Vóór 1939 <> 1942-12-07
: Hans Ludwig Larsen (collection), Wassenaar
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: Museum inventory; D. Brongers, M. van Houten-de Kom, Eindrapportage Herkomst & Restitutie Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, 22 December 2000; RKD Visual Documentation no. 1402; Van Marle & Bignell archive, inv. no. 193; SNK archive no. 156.716
7-12-1942
: Van Marle & Bignell (auction), The Hague
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: Museum inventory; D. Brongers, M. van Houten-de Kom, Eindrapportage Herkomst & Restitutie Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, 22 December 2000; RKD Visual Documentation no. 1402; see Van Marle & Bignell cat., The Hague, 7 December 1942, no. 54 (ill.); Van Marle & Bignell archive, inv. no. 193; SNK no. 156, 716
1942-12-07 <> ?
: D. Sala & zonen (art dealer), The Hague
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: Museum inventory; D. Brongers, M. van Houten-de Kom, Eindrapportage Herkomst & Restitutie Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, 22 December; SNK archive no. 716
1942<> heden
: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag [nl]
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: Museum inventory; D. Brongers, M. van Houten-de Kom, Eindrapportage Herkomst & Restitutie Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, 22 December 2000; RKD Visual Documentation no. 1402; RKD images artwork no. 29100
Current restitution status
No requests
Research findings
This painting was part of the collection confiscated from Hans Ludwig Larsen.
Hans Ludwig Larsen was of German Jewish extraction and settled in the Netherlands with his family before 1931. At his death in Wassenaar in 1937 he left a large art collection. His wife Suzanne Larsen-Menzel and their two children became Dutch citizens in 1939. In October of that year they emigrated to the United States. Before leaving, Mrs Larsen-Menzel gave a number of objects from the collection on loan to Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. After the German invasion the new regime identified these items as enemy property and had put them up for sale in 1942 at Van Marle & Bignell auction house. How the painting subsequently returned to the possession of the museum is unclear. Sala art gallery may have played a role. An old inventory card states: 'Bought back from the Germans.'
