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Scene from The Marriage of Figaro
Lost Art-ID
586417
Artist / Creator
Title
Scene from The Marriage of Figaro
Dating
1874
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Oil ; Canvas / painted
Height
110.00 cm
Width
90.00 cm
Description
signed and dated C. Becker 74
Provenance
S. Löwenstein, Hamburg (per Boetticher); Oscar Löwenstein, Vienna; Irma Löwenstein, Vienna, acquired as a gift from the above, 1934; dispossession as a result of Nazi persecution is suspected; current whereabouts unknown
Literature / Source
Exhibitions:
Verzeichnis neuerer Gemälde Gemälde und Zeichnungen in Hamburgischem Privatbesitz, Hamburger Kunstverein, 15 May–15 July 1879 (per Boetticher)
(possibly Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung, 1 May–26 September 1897, cat. no. 73?)
Bibliographical references:
“Gräfin Almaviva und Susanne,” in: Illustrierte Zeitung, vol. 74, no. 1914 (6 March 1880), 185, related to ill. on cover
Meisterwerke der Holzschneidekunst, vol. 14, no. 8 (1892): 30 (related to pl. LIV)
Friedrich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, vol. 1 (Dresden: selfpubl. 1895), pp. 60–62, cat. no. 54 (as S. Löwenstein, Hamburg)
Sophie Lillie, Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens (Vienna: Czernin, 2003), 728–733
Archival references:
LGZRS, Notarial deed, Dr. Paul Laufer, 24 May 1934 (no. 625/34)
ÖStA, AdR, VVSt, VA 28887. Appraisal, E[mmerich] Schaffran, 28 June 1938
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