Investigation into the provenance of museum collections in connection with the theft, confiscation and sale of objects under duress between 1933 and 1945.

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Portrait of Balich Occo Pompeiusdochter, wife of Joost Buijck

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Portret van Balich Occo Pompeiusdochter

Portrait of Balich Occo Pompeiusdochter, wife of Joost Buijck

Artist/ Creator
Isaac Claesz van Swanenburg (formerly attributed to Lancelot Blondeel)
Title
Portrait of Balich Occo Pompeiusdochter, wife of Joost Buijck
Year
16th-century copy of an unknown original
Technique
Oil on panel
Size
51 x 40,5 cm
Inventorynumber
AK 215
Category
Paintings

Museum

Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder

Conclusion

Who the owner was and who consigned this painting for sale at Paul Brandt auction is not known.

Explanation

This portrait of Balich Occo Pompeiusdochter (1510-1578), formerly attributed to Lancelot Blondeel and currently to Isaac Claesz van Swanenburg was bought by the museum in 1943 at a small Amsterdam auction house. The possibly problematic provenance of the painting was mentioned in the Museum Acquisitions 1940-1948 report, in 1999. No new information regarding the previous owners has emerged since then.

Reconstruction origin

1943-02-24
Paul Brandt (auction), Amsterdam

Museum inventory; see Paul Brandt cat., Amsterdam 24 February 1943, no. 7 (ill.) (as L. Blondeel)

1943-02-24
Purchased through mediation by Paul Brandt and C.J. Baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oijen

Museum inventory

1943-02-24 <> present day
Museum Ons Lieve Heer op Solder