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Portrait of a Lady
Lost Art-ID
522070
Artist / Creator
Unknown (Englisch)
Title
Portrait of a Lady
Dating
1810/20 (um)
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Height
81.90 cm
Width
66.70 cm
Inventory number
12042
Description
Backsite: on the canvas in white "5766", stretcher top left in blue "UX R 1/1 °" [Standort Meiserstraße], next in cursive "Caisse" ?, on the stretcher cross an illegible plate [laut Bildakt eine handschriftliche Inschrift: "Ms Sh Siddons / made in .....1802? / by Th. Lawrence, borned 1769 / in Bristol / ... London 1830"], stretcher bottom left label BStGS "Inv.Nr. 12042", crossed Typescript: "Französisch 1820, Damenbildnis", handwritten "Sir Thomas Lawrence, Mrs. Siddons" about it red stamp "Geprüft 1959", stretcher vertical central strut bottom black block letters "Eigentum / uleiter Gie" [vermutlich "Eigentum Gauleiter Giesler"], only protection framework
Holding
Provenance
Undated Paul Giesler (15.6.1895 - 8.05.1945), Gauleiter of Munich-Upper Bavaria - 17.05.1954 Bavarian State Painting Collections from the retracted to redress purposes estate of Paul Giesler, Escrow No. 25 of the Bavarian State Office for asset management and compensation (referred to as "French in 1820").
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Contact
Staatliche Museumsagentur Bayern
Referat für Provenienzforschung
Landshuter Allee 8
80637 München
Germany
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