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AdolpheJosephThomasMonticelli
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LaCharettedeFoin(TheHayCart)
Oilonwood,16.5x30cm
signedatlowerleft:“Monticelli”
onverso,uppercentre,inscribedinpencil:“Monticelli”;lowerleft,inredchalk:“121”;lowercentre,
inbluechalk:“121”;lowerright,inpinkchalk:“121”,“121”
Provenance:
EugèneBlot
Sale:CollectionEugèneBlot,HôtelDrouot,Paris,2June1933,lot82,pl.XXI(boughtin)
(…)
BrameetLorenceau,Paris(perStammégna)
(…)
Bylatest2012:CorneliusGurlitt,Munich/Salzburg
From6May2014:EstateofCorneliusGurlitt
Exhibitions:
Monticelli: 1824–1886: Quelques œuvres et chefs-d’œuvre. Alfred Daber, Paris, 14 June–2 Juli
1938,no.9
Bibliographicalreference:
Cataloguedestableauxmodernes(…)provenantdelaCollectionEugèneBlot,HôtelDrouot,Paris,
2June1933,lot82,pl.XXI
Gazettedel’HôtelDrouot,3June1933
Stammégna, Sauveur. Catalogue des œuvres de Monticelli. 3 vols. Marseille: self-publ., 1981–
1987.[vol.II,no.846,ill.]
Primarysources:
ArchivesdeParis:
Procès-verbaldelaVenteBlot,no.D43E3123
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BusinessrecordsHildebrandGurlitt–possiblereferences:
Salesledger1937–41:
15December1937[no.8]
20May1938[no.62]
24February1943[no.170]
3February1943[no.171]
Salesledger1937–?:
30November1936[no.968]
15December1936[?][no.968]
20May1938[no.1114]
3February1943[no.1762]
24February1943[no.1762]
SeizureInventory[Sicherstellungsverzeichnis],2012,no.SV(Part2)/080
Furthersourcesconsulted:
Coquiot,Gustave.Monticelli.Paris:AlbinMichel,1925.
Arnaudd'Agnel,Gustave,andÉmileIsnard.Monticelli:Savieetsonœuvre.Paris:Occitania,1926.
Blot,Eugène.Histoired’uneCollectiondeTableauxModernes.Paris:Éditionsd’art,1934.
Raynaud,Henry,ed.CataloguedelacollectiondefeuFrançoisHonnoratcomposéede26tableaux
deMonticelli.Auct.cat.,HoteldesVentes,Marseille,29December1936.
Bourlard-Collin,Simone,ed.Monticelli.Exh.cat.,Kunsthalle,Hamburg,April–May1966.
Alauzen, André, and Pierre Ripert. Monticelli: Sa vie et son œuvre. Paris: Bibliothèque des Arts,
1969.
CorrespondenceHildebrandGurlitt
CulturalPlunderbytheEinsatzstabReichsleiterRosenberg:DatabaseofArtObjectsattheJeude
Paume
Database“CentralCollectingPointMünchen“
Database“KunstsammlungHermannGöring”
GettyProvenanceIndex,GermanSalesCatalogs
Lootedart.com
LostArt
RépertoiredesBiensSpoliés
RijksbureauvoorKunsthistorischeDocumentatie
VerzeichnisnationalwertvollerKunstwerke(“Reichslistevon1938”)
WittLibrary
Note:
ThisworkwasoriginallyownedbyEugèneBlot(1857Paris–1938Paris),aParisiandealer,bronze
founder and art collector. It was offered for sale at the Vente Blot in 1933 but was bought in,
accordingtotheauctionrecordspreservedattheArchivesdeParis.
Thepossibleprovenancethatwastentativelyassignedtotheartworkinthecourseofitsseizure,
andlaterpublishedonLostart.de,requiresfurtherresearch.
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