Millet_Seated_Peasant_Woman_478201_FINAL

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Jean-FrançoisMillet
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Paysanneassise(Seatedpeasantwoman),1868
Inkonpaper,70x60mm
onrecto,lowerright,bluestamps:“J.F.M”[Lugt3728]and“VenteMillet”[Lugt1816a]
Provenance:
Estateoftheartist
Sale:VenteMillet,HôtelDrouot,Paris,10–11May1875(perstamp)
Sale:VenteVeuveMillet,HôtelDrouot,Paris,24–25April1894(perstamp)
(…)
AcquiredbyHildebrandGurlittinFrance,c.1942
BydescenttoCorneliusGurlitt,Munich/Salzburg
From6May2014:EstateofCorneliusGurlitt
Bibliographicalreferences:
Lugt,Frits.LesMarquesdeCollectionsdeDessins&d'Estampes.1sted.,Amsterdam:Vereenigde
Drukkerijen,1921;supplement,TheHague:MartinusNijhoff,1956.[nos.L.3728,L.1816a]
www.marquesdecollections.fr/detail.cfm/marque/11236/total/1(6July2015)
www.marquesdecollections.fr/detail.cfm/marque/8379/total/1(6July2015)
Primarysources:
BusinessrecordsHildebrandGurlitt:
Saleledger1937–41
28May1942
20June1942[no.139]
CorrespondenceHildebrandGurlitt:
26September1947[vol.10,fol.445;vol.12,fol.334]
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CorneliusGurlittPapers,Salzburg:
Correspondence,ref.no.inprocess[21August1947,4October1947,2December1947]
NationalArchives,CollegePark,Maryland(NARA):
Ardelia Hall Collection, Munich Collecting Point, 1945–1951. Statement Hildebrand Gurlitt, 26
September1947
www.fold3.com/image/270055508/
YadVashemArchives,Jerusalem:
InternationalTracingService
WittLibrary,London:
FolderJean-FrançoisMillet[variantcomposition]
SeizureInventory[Sicherstellungsverzeichnis],2012,no.SV41/039
Furthersourcesconsulted:
Catalogue de la vente aui aura lieu par suite du décés de Jean-François Millet. Auct. cat., Hôtel
Drouot,Paris,10–11May1875.
Sensier,Alfred.Lavieetl’œuvredeJean-FrançoisMillet.Paris:Quantin,1881.
Cartwright,Julia.Jean-FrançoisMillet:HisLifeandLetters.London:SwanSonnenscheinandNew
York:TheMacmillanCompany,1896.
Gensel, Walther. Millet und Rousseau. Vol. 57 of Künstlermonographien. Bielefeld: Velhagen &
Klasing,1902.
Peacock,Netta.Millet.London:Methuen,1905.
Hoeber,Arthur.TheBarbizonPainters.NewYork:TheMentorAssociation,1914.
Moreau-Nélaton,Etienne.Millet:racontéparlui-même.Paris:HenriLaurens,1921.
Graphik und Handzeichnungen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts (= Auktion 72). Auct. cat., Paul
Graupe,Berlin,5–7May1927.
Antiquitäten, Gemälde, modernes Mobiliar (= Katalog 2094). Auct. cat., Rudolph Lepke's KunstAuctions-Haus,Berlin,1–2November1935.
DessinsdeJean-FrançoisMillet.Exh.cat.,MuséeduLouvre,Paris,1960.
Mégret,Frédéric.“Millet:l'apôtredespaysans.”In:ConnaissancedesArts251,Paris,1973.
Bacou,Roseline.Millet.Onehundreddrawings.London:Harper&Row1975.
Herbert,RobertL.,ed.Jean-FrançoisMillet.Exh.cat.,GrandPalais,Paris,1975.
Fermigier,André.Jean-FrançoisMillet.Geneva:Skira1979.
Murphy,Alexandra.Jean-FrançoisMillet.Boston:Little,Brown&Co,1984.
Laughton,Bruce.TheDrawingsofDaumierandMillet.NewHaven:YaleUniversityPress,1991.
Meyer, Andrea. “Zwischen Original und (Ver-)Fälschung: Werke von Jean-François Millet in
deutschemPrivatbesitz.”In:Geschmacksgeschichte(n):ÖffentlichesundprivatesKunstsammelnin
Deutschland1871–1933,ed.UlrikeWolff-ThomsenandSvenKuhrau.Kiel:Ludwig,2011.
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CulturalPlunderbytheEinsatzstabReichsleiterRosenberg:DatabaseofArtObjectsattheJeude
Paume
Database“CentralCollectingPointMünchen”
Database“KunstsammlungHermannGöring”
GettyProvenanceIndex,GermanSalesCatalogs
Lootedart.com
LostArt
RépertoiredesBiensSpoliés
RijksbureauvoorKunsthistorischeDocumentatie
VerzeichnisnationalwertvollerKunstwerke(“Reichslistevon1938”)
WittLibrary
Note:
The Millet drawings found in the Schwabing Art Trove are typical of his oeuvre during his
residence near Fontainebleau, where he arrived in 1871. He concentrated on capturing the
landscapeandthehumbleinhabitantsofthisregion.
Thestamp“J.F.M“[Lugt3728]indicatesthattheworkwasinthepossessionofMillet’swidowand
wasauctionedafterherdeathin1894.Thestamp“VenteMillet”[Lugt1816a]indicatesthatthe
workhadpreviouslybeenofferedintheartist’sestatesalein1875butwasboughtin.Asthe1875
catalogueisnotillustratedanddoesnotincludemeasurements,anidentificationoftheworkwas
notpossible.
According to the extant sale ledgers, this was one of about forty works that Gurlitt claimed to
have acquired from the art dealer Jean Lenthal in Paris on 20 June 1942. Research by the
Taskforce revealed these to be false entries. Post-war correspondence between Gurlitt and
Lenthal, which was found in Cornelius Gurlitt’s Salzburg residence, proved that Gurlitt coerced
Lenthal into issuing fake receipts for works that Lenthal never owned or sold. Gurlitt provided
Lenthalwithastatementtothiseffectin1947.
Jean Lenthal (recte Hans Loewenthal, 1914 Vienna–1983 Paris) was an art dealer in Paris. On
account of his Jewish descent, Lenthal was deported in 1943, first to Drancy and thereafter to
Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps. After the liberation in 1945,
LenthalreturnedtoliveinPariswhereheresumedhisartdealership.
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