Portrait of Violante
Knee piece. Young lady in red velvet costume with puffed and slit sleeves and tight bodice. In the wide décolleté white lace hem. White frond held in the right hand. Blond hair coiffed up with pearl necklace and falling over right shoulder. Necklace of pearls and brown waist chain. Looking to the right. Green-grey semicircular niche and pillar niche with children on the left.
Reverse: Gal. Zinckgraf 21300. California Palace of the Legion of Honour, Portrait of Violante
around 1530 - without date, Paris Bordone (1500 - 1571)
around 1635, possibly Duke of Savoy
without date - without date, whereabouts unknown
around 1929, possibly Paul Reinhardt, New York
without date - at least 1939, James Saint Lawrence O'Toole
1939 at the earliest - 31.07.1942, art shop Eugenio Ventura, Florence
31.07.1942 - 16.01.1943, Zinckgraf Gallery, Munich, purchased (in Munich) from Eugenio Ventura, Florence
16.01.1943 - 1945, NSDAP (Party Chancellery), Munich, purchased (in Munich) from Galerie Zinckgraf, Munich
11.07.1945 - 10.06.1949, Central Collecting Point, Munich number 4865, seized by American Allies
10.06.1949 - 22.02.1952, Prime Minister of Bavaria, Munich, transfer in trust by American Allies
22.02.1952 - 10.12.1956, administration of cultural property in trust at the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany, Munich, transfer in trust by Bavarian Prime Minister
since 10.12.1956, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Painting Collections), Munich, transfer of ownership from the Munich Finance Office to the Free State of Bavaria
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