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Christ and the Adulteress
Lost Art-ID
616170
Artist / Creator
Giorgione (Style of)
Birth
1478 (um), Castelfranco Veneto
Death
1510.10.25 / 1511 (vor), Venedig
Place of activity
Venedig
Artist / Creator
Title
Christ and the Adulteress
Dating
1501/1600
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Height
134.00 cm
Width
171.00 cm
Description
Composition with many Figures
Provenance
Lord Northwick; Northwick Estate Sale, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, 26 July 1859 and subsequent days, lot 1577 (as Giorgione); Christie, Manson and Woods, London, 25 November 1911, lot 116 (as Giorgione); Knoedler, London, acquired at the above sale (considered by Knoedler to be a work by Bonifacio Veronese); Marcell Nemes, Budapest-Munich, acquired from the above, December 1912; Baron Mor Lipot Herzog, Budapest, acquired from the above, July 1915; Baroness Mor Lipot Herzog, Budapest, 1934 by descent; Herzog Andras, Erzsebet, Istvan, 1940, by descent; Lost during WWII, looted by the Nazis, Budapest, 1944, and thereafter deposited at Schloss Fischhorn; Transferred to Poland by the US army, having been erroneously identified as Polish property; Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, inv. 2191 (alt. 187150), acquired in 1946
Literature / Source
A köztulajdonba vett műkincsek első kiállítása [The First Exhibition of the Nationalized Artworks.] Budapest, Műcsarnok [Exposition of Art] 1919. Room I, no. 38.; Herzog Mór Lipót műtárgyainak lefoglalása. Lefoglalási jegyzőkönyvek, [Seizure of Lipót Mór Herzog's artworks. Seizure records] March, 1919. Budapest. Archives of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. No. 60.; Jegyzőkönyv a báró Herzog Lipót Mór úr köztulajdonba vett képzőművészeti alkotások visszaadása tárgyában. [Minutes regarding the return of artworks of baron Herzog Lipót Mór taken into public ownership.] September 5, 1921. Archives of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. No. 60.; Éber, László ed., Művészeti Lexikon. Építészet. Szobrászat. Festészet. Iparművészet. [Art Lexicon. Architecture. Sculpture. Painting. Applied Art.] 1926, Andor Győző kiadása, Budapest. vol. 1, p. 110.; Németek által elhurcolt műkincsek [Artworks carried away by Germans] 67.896/1947, Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár [National Archives of Hungary] XXIX-L-2-r. Baroness Alfonz Weiss, No. 5.; Wer kann Auskunft geben über den Verbleib nachstendend abgebildeter bzw. beschriebener Bilde der früheren Sammlung Baron Herzog, Budapest, welche seit der deutscher Besetzung von 1944 wermiesst werden? „Die Weltkunst” XX. 1. Oktober, 1950. No. 19.; Mravik, László, The "Sacco Di Budapest" and Depredation of Hungary, 1938-1949: Works of Art Missing from Hungary as a Result of the Second World War : Looted, Smuggled, Captured, Lost and Destroyed Art Works, Books and Archival Documents : Preliminary and Provisional Catalog, 1998, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest. No. 19840, p. 310.; Serenissima: Światło Wenecji [Serenissima: The Light of Venice], Muzeum Narodwe, Warsaw, October–December 1999.
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