Found-Object Report | Object report
Mother breastfeeding her child
Lost Art-ID
630034
Artist / Creator
Ochtervelt, Jacob
Birth
1634/1635, Rotterdam?
Death
1708/1710, Rotterdam
Title
Mother breastfeeding her child
Dating
1665 (around)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Panel (Oak) / painted
Measures
Frame dimensions: 32 x 26,7 x 4,2 cm
Height
15.00 cm
Width
12.20 cm
Inventory number
R 22
Description
inscribed top left at forehead height: J Ochtervelt; verso on decorative frame top left. Remains of a detached label: [illegible]; next to it white KHZ label; top right Chalk in blue: [illegible] 22 [underlined; numbering Ruzicka-Stiftung] [hs]; on wooden panel traces of a detached label: [illegible]; below centre in black: [illegible] [hs]; next to it traces of stamp in black: [illegible]; below left white KHZ label
Provenance
Jacob Ochtervelt (*1634 Rotterdam, +1682 Amsterdam) (artist)
Whereabouts unknown
probably, 1934, Landry (collection)
probably, from 1933 at the earliest - undated, Jacques Goudstikker (*1897, +1940) (collector), Paris
probably, J. & S. Goldschmidt (art trade)
[whereabouts unknown?]
Galerie Sanct Lucas (gallery), Vienna
[whereabouts unknown?]
from 1935 at the latest - n.d., Willibald Duschnitz (*1884 Vienna, +1976 Teresepolis) (collector), Vienna
undated - 28.6.1943, Dr Louis Ferrière, Geneva, unknown
22.12.1942 - 28.6.1943, Galerie Fischer (gallery), Lucerne, commission
28.6.1943 - 27.12.1948, Leopold Ruzicka (*1887 Vukovar, +1976 Mammern) (collector), purchase
27 Dec. 1948 - 2005, Ruzicka Foundation (collection), Zurich, transfer
1949 - 2005, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zurich, loan
from 2005, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zurich, gift
The provenance between 1933 and 1945 is not clearly clarified or has gaps. No evidence of Nazi-looted art has emerged from the available research. However, there are indications of Nazi-looted art and/or conspicuous accompanying circumstances. The provenance must be investigated further.
Further information in the online catalogue of the Kunsthaus Zürich: external link
Literature / Source
Susan Donahue Kuretsky: The Paintings of Jacob Ochtervelt (1634-1682): with a catalogue raisonné, Montclair: Allanheld & Schram, 1979, Nr. 29.
Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern 2007, S. 109.
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