Rest break before an inn in the countryside
At a crossroads in the middle distance a thatched farmhouse inn between trees against a mountain backdrop. Prior to three riders with two white and one brown, one of which mounts a left his horse, the middle a trunk gets poured from the underlying host. To the left of the group on a winch well a woman. In the foreground a boy with packhorse. Wayside five figures, including a seated woman with a jug, a sleeping man and a standing, with whom she speaks. In the background a covered wagon, a passing wooden cart, which are pulled by teams of four horses and a be-removing man with child and Kiepe (rucksack).
Possibly identical with Hofst.d.Groot Vol. III p 480 no. 77.
Collection Baron van Hövell tot Westerflier; Kunsthandel Katz, Dieren (1935);
Collection Andriesse, Belgien;
3.12.1941 ERR-seizure Musees royaux d'art et d'histoire, Parc du Cinquantenaire, Bruxelles;
on 12/03/1942 to the depot of the museum Jeu de Paume, Paris
20.3.1944, Paris [H.G.- Hermann Göring];
Collection Konsul Hermann Neuerburg, Köln;
Privatsammlung, München;
private collection, Brazil;
Lempertz auction 920, Alte Kunst, on 17.05.2008, Köln, Lot 1126, € 192.000;
Tausch 17. ERR exchange with Jan Dik, Amsterdam (for Goering). According to a postwar statement made by Bruno Lohse to Allied interrogators, this transaction was strictly private between Kurt von Behr and the dealer Jan Dik, Jr of Amsterdam, who had come to Paris to offer to sell a group of paintings to Goering. Dik was accompanied by Mr. Modrezewski, a Polish-born German citizen living in Amsterdam, heavily implicated in recycling of looted art.
RG 260 M1943 Reel 3 NARA; Bundesarchiv, B323/266, ERR-Projekt: Externer Link Externer Link