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Ganzfiguriges Bildnis eines siebenjährigen Jungen
Full-figure Portrait of a Seven-year-old Boy
Kunstpalast - Horst Kolberg - ARTOTHEK

Full-figure Portrait of a Seven-year-old Boy, 1646

ArtistSamuel Hofmann, Sankt Gallen 1595–1649 Frankfurt am Main
Oil on canvas
Dimensions without frame134 × 101,5 cm
Dimensions with frame154,2 × 122 × 8,4 cm
Status
not on display
About the workThis painting was acquired as part of a multilateral exchange in 1938/39. This involved Düsseldorf’s municipal art collection entrusting a picture by Edvard Munch to the dealer Hildebrandt Gurlitt, who sold it on to Oslo. Modern artists like the Norwegian painter were denounced by the National Socialists as “degenerate”. Gurlitt used the proceeds to acquire a work by Anton Mirou, a seventeenth-century Flemish painter, which he passed on to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum in Bonn. At that time, its collection focused on Rhenish and Dutch Old Masters. As no more suitable works were consigned to the museum, this portrait of a boy by the Swiss artist Samuel Hofmann was transferred from Bonn to Düsseldorf, which had a more wide-ranging collection of Old Masters.
AccessionAcquired by exchange 1938
Provenanceo.D. Sammlung Otto Wesendonck (Elberfeld 1815 - 1896 Berlin), Berlin; 1896 Mathilde Wesendonck (Elberfeld 1828 - 1902 Traunblick, Österreich), erworben im Erbgang von ihrem Ehemann; 1902 Erbengemeinschaft Wesendonck, Berlin; bis mind. 1927 Provinzial-Museum Bonn als Dauerleihgabe der Wesendonck-Erben; 1938 erworben im Tausch durch Vermittlung des Kunsthändlers Dr. Hildebrand Gurlitt, Hamburg
Inventory numberM 114
Contact
sammlung@kunstpalast.de
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