View of Lake Nemi
signed and dated lower right ‘Gurlitt 1884’
Reverse: top left blue chalk: "74", top right label: "Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung 1942 im Haus der Deutschen Kunst zu München" with various stamps: "Einlieferungsbuch / 68; Kiste / M.E.; Stoß / 204", top centre printed adhesive label: "Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung 1942 im Haus der Deutschen Kunst zu München" with handwritten entries in blue on the artist and his work, right next to it a vignette in gold, below blue chalk: "P 57/VI", centre brown chalk: "P 57/VI". Entries in blue on the artist and work, gold vignette pasted on to the right, below blue chalk: "P 57/VI", brown printed adhesive label in the centre with information on: "Katalognummer 435/Saalnummer 30 / Anschrift für Rücksendung: “Professor Michaelis...München...Versicherungswert: RM 800.-”, bottom right in lead: “13305/ 21”.
Allegedly from the artist's family estate via the Rusch art shop, Dresden, to Galerie Arnold, Munich
01.07.1942 from there for 14.000,- RM to the German Reich, furnishing Posen Castle
Kunstverwaltung des Bundes
Herbert-Bayer-Straße 5
13086 Berlin
Germany