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L'Art heraldique, contenant la maniere d'apprendre facilement la blason. Enrichi des Figures necessaires pour l'intelligence des Termes ... Nouvelle edition, revûë, corrigée & augmentée

Jules Baron (French, active in the late 17th century)

1717

Medium/TechniqueIllustrated book, with hand-colored etchings

DimensionsOverall: 16.9 x 10.2 x 2.8 cm (6 5/8 x 4 x 1 1/8 in.)

Credit LineGift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild

Accession number2015.65

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ProvenanceAntoine Jean Auguste Henry du Rosnel (b. 1771 - d. 1849), Paris. Nathaniel von Rothschild (b. 1836 - d. 1905), 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 (No. 684617-A) [see note 2]; August 17, 2004, removed from the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek and returned to Alphonse and Clarice de Rothschild's daughter, Bettina Looram de Rothschild (b. 1924 - d. 2012); by descent to her heirs; 2015, gift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 25, 2015)

NOTES:
[1] Inventar über die in den Nathaniel Freiherr von Rotschild'schen Nachlass gehörigen, in dem Palais in Wien, IV. Bezirk, Theresianumgasse Nr. 14 befindlichen Kunstgegenstände und Einrichtungsstücke (Vienna, 1906), p. 489, no. 417.

[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. Most but not all of the books and manuscripts were returned to Clarice de Rothschild immediately after World War II. In 2004, upon the recommendation of the Austrian Commission for Provenance Research, the objects that remained in the National Library were released by the Austrian State and returned to Bettina Looram de Rothschild.