Men Playing Cards in a Tavern
Hendrik Martensz Sorgh
(Dutch, 1609 or 1611–1670)
1669
Medium/TechniqueOil on panel
Dimensions53 × 40 cm (20 7/8 × 15 3/4 in.)
Credit LinePromised gift of Susan and Matthew Weatherbie, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession numberL-T 198.11.2022
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Collections
Provenance1867, José de Salamanca (b. 1811 - d. 1883), 1st Marqués de Salamanca, Madrid; June 3-6, 1867, Salamanca sale, at his hotel, Paris, lot 104, sold for fr.1000 to Merton. Max Wassermann (b. 1856 - d. 1926) and Leonore Seligman Wassermann (b. 1860 - d.1944), Paris; March 20, 1941, confiscated from the Wassermann collection by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR no. MW 43) and sent to Füssen, Germany [see note 1]; 1942, sent to the Jeu de Paume, Paris and subsequently to Alt Aussee, Austria; June 23, 1945, shipped by Allied forces to the Munich Central Collecting Point (MCCP no. 367/15) [see note 2]; July 11, 1946, released from the MCCP to France for restitution to the Wassermann collection; November 26-27, 1967, Wassermann sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, lot 40. 1968/1969, H. Terry-Engell Gallery, London [see note 3]. 1969, Herman Shickman Gallery, New York. Private collection, Pennsylvania; January 17, 1985, sale ("Property of a Private Collector, Pennsylvania"), Sotheby's, New York, lot 11. January 1985, sold by Hoogsteder-Naumann, Ltd., New York, to Susan and Matthew Weatherbie, Boston.
NOTES:
[1] The ERR was the National Socialist agency responsible for plundering art and cultural goods. This painting was confiscated from Mme. Wassermann's collection at the Banque Credit de l'Union Parisienne and given ERR no. MW 43. National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD, Microfilm Publication M1943, ERR Card File and Related Photographs, No. MW 43; also see the Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de Paume (www.errproject.org).
[2] Many works of art stored elsewhere by the Nazis were moved to the abandoned salt mines of Alt Aussee in Austria, to be kept safe from wartime bombing. Allied troops recovered the looted artwork at the end of World War II, and established collecting points where the art could be identified for restitution to its rightful owners. This painting came into the Munich Central Collecting Point from Alt Aussee (no. 293/15) and was numbered 367/15. Munich Central Collecting Point inventory card, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD (Property Card 367/15; RG 260, Microfilm Publication M1946, Roll 156).
[3] Terry-Engell Gallery, Eleventh Annual Catalogue: Fine Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings (1968/69), cat. no. 23.
NOTES:
[1] The ERR was the National Socialist agency responsible for plundering art and cultural goods. This painting was confiscated from Mme. Wassermann's collection at the Banque Credit de l'Union Parisienne and given ERR no. MW 43. National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD, Microfilm Publication M1943, ERR Card File and Related Photographs, No. MW 43; also see the Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de Paume (www.errproject.org).
[2] Many works of art stored elsewhere by the Nazis were moved to the abandoned salt mines of Alt Aussee in Austria, to be kept safe from wartime bombing. Allied troops recovered the looted artwork at the end of World War II, and established collecting points where the art could be identified for restitution to its rightful owners. This painting came into the Munich Central Collecting Point from Alt Aussee (no. 293/15) and was numbered 367/15. Munich Central Collecting Point inventory card, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD (Property Card 367/15; RG 260, Microfilm Publication M1946, Roll 156).
[3] Terry-Engell Gallery, Eleventh Annual Catalogue: Fine Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings (1968/69), cat. no. 23.
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