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Description des Festes Données par la Ville de Paris, À l'occasion du Mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France & de Dom Philippe, Infant & Grand Amiral d'espagne, les vingt-neuvième & trentième Août mil sept cent trente-neuf

Jean François Blondel (French, 1683–1756)

1740

Medium/TechniqueIllustrated book

DimensionsOverall: 63.5 x 48.2 x 3 cm (25 x 19 x 1 3/16 in.)

Credit LineGift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild

Accession number2015.56

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ClassificationsIllustrated books

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ProvenanceFebruary 20, 1837, Bibliothèque de Rosny sale, Paris, lot 1762. Nathaniel von Rothschild (b. 1836 - d. 1905), Schloss Schillersdorf, Silherovice, present-day Czech Republic and Vienna [see note 1]; by descent to his nephew, Alphonse de Rothschild (b. 1878 – d. 1942) and Clarice de Rothschild (b. 1894 – d. 1967), Vienna; 1938, confiscated from Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild by Nazi forces and taken to the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna [see note 2]; 1948, removed from the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek and returned to Clarice de Rothschild, New York [see note 2]; by descent to her daughter, Bettina Looram de Rothschild (b. 1924 - d. 2012); about 1990/1992, given by Bettina Looram de Rothschild to members of her family; 2015, gift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 25, 2015)

NOTES:
[1] The book bears a bookplate from Schloss Schillersdorf (No. D 157), and is included in the Inventar über die in den Nathaniel Freiherr von Rothschild'schen Nachlass gehörigen, in dem Palais in Wien, IV. Bezirk, Theresianumgasse Nr. 14 befindliche Kunstgegenstände und Einrichtungsstücke (Vienna, 1906), p. 508, no. 470.

[2] With the Anschluss, or annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in March, 1938, the possessions of Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild were seized and expropriated almost immediately by Nazi forces. The contents of their library were taken directly to the Nationalbibliothek, or National Library. This book appears in a 1948 list of books returned from the library to Clarice de Rothschild, kindly provided by Margot Werner of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.