Johann Heiss

The Exodus from Egypt 

support

Canvas

dimensions

106,5 cm x 152 cm

MUSEUM COLLECTION 

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels 

inventory number 

6599

Provenance 

Sold in June 1944 by the widow of the collector Van Gelder, Uccle/Ukkel to Maurice Lagrand for 8,000 RM; resold at the Dorotheum auction house, Vienna for 30,000 RM on 29 July 1944; recovered by the American Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives division; transferred to the Collection Point München (Munich no. 33828); returned to Belgium (Economic Recovery Service no. A.97); assigned in 1951 to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.


  • Johann Heiss, The Exodus from Egypt