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Oak

dimensions

61 cm x 43 cm

MUSEUM COLLECTION 

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels 

inventory number 

6646

Provenance

Sale of the entire collection of paintings of the collector Emile Renders, Brussels and Bruges, via Jacques De Mul, Walter Paech, Alois Miedl (who had taken over the business of art dealer Goudstikker, Amsterdam, during the Occupation, no. 6052) to Andreas Hofer; on 15 May 1941 purchased by Hermann Göring. This painting from the collection was not transferred from Carinhall but instead found its way to the Deutsche Landsvolksbank at Lenggries (Lenggries no. 13/22) from June 1942; recovered from there by the American Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives division in 1945; transferred to the Collection Point München (Munich no. 15858); returned to Belgium (Economic Recovery Service no. A.57); after the verdict in the trial of E. Renders assigned in 1952 to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels.