A Man Writing at his Desk

A Man Writing at his Desk

SK-A-4130

Interieur met een man schrijvend aan een lessenaar op een tafel. Aan de muur hangen twee schilderijen: een landschap en een mansportret.

signature and date: ‘I. Ekels A.no 1784’

painter: Jan Ekels (II), Northern Netherlands

1784

olieverf op paneel

• height 51.5 cm x width 39.5 cm
• depth 7.5 cm

Public domain

….; collection Lanckoroński, Vienna;{MCCP website, file card no. 494.} from whom confiscated by the Nazi's for Adolph Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1939;{Skubiszewska/Kuczman 2010, p. 23} war recuperation, Austrian Government, 1946;{MCCP Website, file card no. 494; the Munich Central Collecting Point number 494 is recorded in blue on the reverse of the painting; Kommission für Provenienzforschung, Bundesdenkmalamt, Hofburg, Vienna, BDA-Archiv, Restitutionsmaterialien, Karton 12/3, Mappe 2, Liste zum 7. Transport, no. 24.}…; collection of the Lanckoroński family, 1950;{Kommission für Provenienzforschung, Bundesdenkmalamt, Hofburg, Vienna, BDA-Archiv, Restitutionsmaterialien, Karton 26/1, Mappe Reservatsakten I, p. 2. The painting is described as `leinwand´ by mistake, but can be identified by the numbers.} ...; sale, the R.T. Hon. The Earl of Derby M.C. et al., London (Christie´s), 21 April 1967, no. 28, £ 840, to the museum

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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