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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Still Life with Fruit

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Fruitstilleven

Still Life with Fruit

Artist/ Creator
Jacob Fransz. van der Merck
Title
Still Life with Fruit
Year
c. 1650
Technique
Oil on canvas
Size
94 x 123,5 cm
Inventorynumber
S 592
Category
Paintings

Museum

Museum De Lakenhal

Conclusion

The identity of the person abbreviated as Pl. who consigned this painting to Mandelbaum & Kronthal auction house is no longer known.

Explanation

This painting was sold at Mandelbaum & Kronthal auction house in Berlin in November 1935. The auctioneers were a continuation of Internationale Kunst- und Auktionshaus which had been taken over in July 1935 in accordance with Germany’s race laws. Dr Ernst Mandelbaum and Peter Paul Kronthal ran the auction house thereafter. The person who consigned this painting (along with 12 others) is abbreviated as Pl. It is unclear who this is (Angelika Enderlein, Der Berliner Kunsthandel in der Weimarer Republik und im NS-Staat, Akademie Verlag Berlin 2006).

Reconstruction origin

? <> 1910-2-22
Unknown, France

See Rudolph Lepke cat., Frankfurt am Main, 22 December 1910, no. 111 (ill.) (as Juriaen van Streek)

1910-02-22
Rudolph Lepke (auction), Frankfurt am Main

RKD Visual Documentation no. 626; see Rudolph Lepke cat., Frankfurt am Main, 22 December 1910, no. 111 (ill.) (as Juriaen van Streek)

? <> 1935-11-19
Pl., unknown

See Mandelbaum & Kronthal cat., Berlin, 19 November 1935, no.345 (ill.)

1935-11-19
Mandelbaum & Kronthal (auction), Berlin

RKD Visual Documentation no. 626.800; RKD Hofstede de Groot fiche no. 1310594; M.L.Wurfbain, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal: Catalogus van de schilderijen en tekeningen, Leiden 1983; see Mandelbaum & Kronthal cat., Berlin, 19 November 1935, no. 345 (ill.)

1936-09-23
Bukowski (auction), Stockholm

RKD Visual Documentation no. 626; RKD Hofstede de Groot fiche no. 1310598; M.L. Wurfbain, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal: catalogus van de schilderijen en tekeningen, Leiden 1983; see Bukowski cat., Stockholm, 23 September 1936, no. 75 (ill.)

Before 1937
P. de Boer (art dealer), Amsterdam

RKD Visual Documentation no. 626; M.L.Wurfbain, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal: catalogus van de schilderijen en tekeningen, Leiden

1937
Purchased by the museum from P. de Boer, art dealer

Museum inventory

1937 <> present day
Museum De Lakenhal