L'affaire des "Rembrandt Nicolas" (1942-1948) The "Nicolas Rembrandt" affair (1942-1948)
The "Nicolas Rembrandt" affair (1942- 1948) Based on a Master thesis entitled "Collecting Rembrandt from the Hermitage to the Louvre: the tortuous path of the two paintings from the Nicolas donation (1929-1979)" this article sheds light on two episodes of the collecting history o...
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The "Nicolas Rembrandt" affair (1942- 1948) Based on a Master thesis entitled "Collecting Rembrandt from the Hermitage to the Louvre: the tortuous path of the two paintings from the Nicolas donation (1929-1979)" this article sheds light on two episodes of the collecting history of Rembrandt’s "Portrait of Titus" (1662) and "Landscape with Castle" (1640-42), both of which entered the Louvre Museum in 1948 as a "gift" from the French wine merchant and collector Etienne Marie Louis Nicolas (1870-1960). In April 1942, during the German Occupation in France, the two paintings were sold by Etienne Nicolas to the German dealer Karl Haberstock for the exceptional sum of 60 million francs (3 million Reichsmark), which made them the most expensive acquisition in the context of the Linz Museum project. Recovered in 1945 by the French authorities, the two paintings were the subject of three years of litigation between the collector and the Commission de récupération artistique, resulting in their donation to the museum by Etienne Nicolas. Through the analysis of hitherto unpublished sources related to this affair, this article aims to contribute to the understanding of the mechanisms of private sales during the Occupation, as well as to that of the attitude manifested by French national museums, in our case the Louvre, towards the recovery of "masterpieces" acquired by the German state from French individuals during the war. |
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| ISBN: | 978-3-11-073760-8 |