Portrait of a Woman with a Squirrel

Portrait of a Woman with a Squirrel

SK-A-3990

Portret van een vrouw met een eekhoorn aan een zilveren ketting. Kniestuk, staande bij een tafel met een Oosters tapijt.

• painter: attributed to Francesco Montemezzano
• painter: Francesco Beccaruzzi [rejected attribution]

1565 - 1575

oil on panel

Public domain

…; the dealer F. Kleinberger, Paris;{RMA Archive, Otto Lanz file.}…; collection Prof. Dr Otto Lanz (1865-1935), Amsterdam, by 1934;{Amsterdam 1934, no. 29.} his widow, Anna Theresia Elisabeth Lanz- Willi (1870 - 1954), Amsterdam, 1935; from whom, CHF 2,000,000 and fl. 350,000, with xx other paintings, to Hans Posse (1879-1942), for Adolf Hitler’s Führermuseum, Linz, through the mediation of the dealer N. Katz, 1941;{Van Os 1978, p. 167.} war recuperation, SNK, 20 November 1945 (inv. no. NK 2315);{Provenance from 1934 to 1945 reconstructed by Ekkart et al. 2006; MCCP website, file card no. 9804; the MCCP no. 9804 is recorded in blue on the reverse of the painting.} on loan from the DRVK to the museum, 1952 (inv. no. SK-C-1416); transferred to the museum, 1960

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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