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An Elegant Party Making Music

Dirck Hals (Dutch, 1591–1656)

1621

Medium/TechniqueOil on panel

Dimensions29.2 x 39.1 cm (11 1/2 x 15 3/8 in.)
Framed: 48.6 x 58.7 x 5.7 cm (19 1/8 x 23 1/8 x 2 1/4 in.)

Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art

Accession number2017.4200

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ClassificationsPaintings

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Europe

ProvenanceBy 1925, Baron Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (b. 1843 - d. 1940), Frankfurt [see note 1]; November 11, 1938, sold by force to the city of Frankfurt and accessioned by the Städtische Galerie im Städel (inv. no. SG 825) [see note 2]; 1948, restituted to the heirs of Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild [see note 3]. Edward Speelman (dealer), London. April 21, 1989, anonymous sale (“The Property of a Lady of Title”), Christie’s, London, lot 32. March 1990, Albrecht Neuhaus Kunsthandel, Würzburg [see note 4]. 1990, Noortman Master Paintings, London. 1990, J.R. Ritman, Amsterdam. By 1994, Noortman Master Paintings, London; 1995, sold by Noortman Master Paintings to Eijk and Rose Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA; 2017, gift of Eijk and Rose Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 14, 2017)

NOTES:
[1] Lent to the Ausstellung von Meisterwerken alter Malerei aus Privatbesitz (Frankfurt: Städel, 1925), p. 33, cat. no. 98, pl. 73.

[2] In November 1938 Nazi authorities forced Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild to sell his art collection to the city of Frankfurt. Upon his death in 1940, the objects were transferred to and accessioned by various city museums. See Eva Mongi-Wollmer, "Alltägliches Recht, alltägliches Unrecht," in Museum im Widerspruch, ed. U. Fleckner and M. Hollein (Berlin, 2011), pp. 164-167; and "Important French Furniture & Objets d'Art," Goldschmidt-Rothschild estate sale, part one, Parke-Bernet, New York, March 10-11, 1950, prefatory note.

[3] In 1946, the painting was listed and illustrated in Diebstahl von Gemälden [Frankfurt, 1946], cat. no. 44, where it was said to have belonged to, and been stolen out of storage from, the Städtische Galerie. A handwritten annotation, however, clarifies that the paintings were "found in cases that never were unpacked by Museums." National Archives and Records Administration, Microfilm Publication M1947 (Textual records created at the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point), roll 10. After World War II, the heirs of Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild succeeded in legally voiding the 1938 sale and recuperating the collection, which was sent to the United States. See Fleckner and Hollein, eds. (as above, n. 2), p. 318, for the date of the painting's restitution.

[4] Advertised in Apollo, March 1990, p. 47.