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Recueil de Chansons, Strasbourg

1761

Medium/TechniqueManuscript: pen and ink on paper

DimensionsOverall: 21.8 x 17.1 x 2.2 cm (8 9/16 x 6 3/4 x 7/8 in.)

Credit LineGift of the heirs of Bettina Looram de Rothschild

Accession number2015.67

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ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts

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ProvenanceAlphonse 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 (Suppl. Mus. 23340) [see note 1]; 2004, restituted 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] 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.