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Registry Number: CCG 180/21537. Pictures, paintings. Correspondence between the German...
Catalogue reference: FO 1057/89
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This record is about the Registry Number: CCG 180/21537. Pictures, paintings. Correspondence between the German... dating from 1945 - 1949 in the series Control Office for Germany and Austria and Foreign Office: Control Commission for.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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FO 1057/89
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1945 - 1949
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- Registry Number: CCG 180/21537. <p>Pictures, paintings.</p> <p>Correspondence between the German Restitution Office of Land North Rhine-Westphalia and the headquarters of the Reparations, Deliveries and Restitutions Division [RDR] including application for restitution forms regarding restitution claim no 8044, filed by the Dutch government in October 1946 for 21 pictures sold by Dutch art dealers during the war at present located at the Wallraff Richard [sic, Wallraff-Richartz] Museum and the Schloss Dyck in Cologne. Includes some photographs of the claimed paintings, which are: an oil painting by PH Koninck described as a 'boy's portrait, dressed in black velvet. In his right hand carrying a stick', dated 1673, size 76 x 66; S Bourdon's portrait of 'Gipsies. A woman prophecying' [sic], size 44 x 60 [with photo], sold in November 1941; an oil painting by d'Hondecoeter depicting 'Fowl, in landscape', size 99 x 117, found in the French Zone of Germany; 'Still life with dead chicken' by Pieter Claesz, dated 1630, size 44 x 63; 'Gardner' by Le Nain, 'Love-sorrow' by J Ochtervelt and A V Ostade's 'Farmers playing at skittles' and 'Stable with two cows', all voluntarily sold to the Wallraff-Richards [sic, Wallraff-Richartz] Museum and held in the French Zone; 'Christ with the adulteress woman' by Marco Marciale, 'Landscape near the water' by Jan Steen, 'Man's portrait' by J Lievens and 'Moonlandscape' by Aert van der Neer, size 50 x 43, all voluntarily sold to the Wallraff-Richards [sic] Museum; Emanuel de Witte's 'Church interior', later noted as acquired before 10 May 1940 and 'Birds in a landscape' by Jan Fijt from the Donnington Palace Collection, held in the French Zone; Jan Steen's 'The wedding party', sold in April 1943 by the Goudstikker-Miedl firm, size 30 x 41; 'Lady dressed in blue' by François Pascal Baron Gerard, sold in July 1942 by Goudstikker-Miedl and originally from Aboltine, Petrograd, size 88 x 73 [with photo], held in the American Zone and due to be transferred to Schloss Dyck; 'Interior' by Cornelis Troost, dated 1727, size 62 x 76 [with photo]; 'Landscape' by C S v d Schalcken, size 25 x 41.5 [with photo]; 'Landscape', oil painting by D van Alsloot, dated 1608, size 132 x 131 [with photo]; 'Large landscape with cave' by Joost de Momper [with photo]; and 'Landscape with hunting-trophy' by J Weenix. <p>Includes investigation forms, dated December 1946, a certificate and release forms authorising the return of twelve of these pictures to The Netherlands in March-December 1947, together with RDR correspondence providing information on the whereabouts of the other paintings, mostly in the French or American zones [see above], and on the purchase of the Emanuel De Witte painting prior to the German occupation, in July 1939. Further correspondence relates to the issues of repeated claims for the same pictures and the temporary suspension of the authority for the release of 12 of the paintings, dated March-October 1948. The 12 pictures are the Bourdon, Claes, Marciale, Steen, Lievens, van der Neer, Steen, Roost, v d Schalcken, van Alsoot, de Momper and Weenix paintings. Includes two receipt forms from the accredited representative of the Dutch government acknowledging the receipt of these pictures, 11 of which were returned in July 1948 while the last one, Marciale's 'Christ with the adultress woman', was returned in October 1949. <p>Further RDR correspondence confirming the transfer from the French Zone to the Wallraff-Richartz Museum of two of the pictures, A v Catade's 'Stable with two cows' and 'Farmers playing on skittles', and their later release to an accredited representative of the Dutch government, dated March-October 1949.</p>
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This document forms part of the Looted Art Collection; records selection and descriptions reproduced by the kind permission of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe.
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CCG 180/21537
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