"Woman with Unicorn

• "Woman with Unicorn
• St Justine (?) as a Personification of Chastity " (former title)

SK-A-3970

In een landschap zit een jonge vrouw met een eenhoorn die zijn kop in haar schoot legt. Vroeger geïnterpreteerd als de heilige Justine, als personificatie van de kuisheid en als een allegorie op de rol van de stadstaat Venetië.

• painter: anonymous, Venice
• painter: Giorgione [rejected attribution]

c. 1510

oil on canvas

• height 28 cm x width 39 cm
• depth 5 cm

Public domain

Inv.; sale, Richard von Kaufmann (1849-1908, Berlin), Berlin (Cassirer & Helbing), 4 December 1917 sqq., no. 56, as Art des Giorgio Barbarelli, DM 34,000, to Prof. Dr Otto Lanz (1865-1935), Amsterdam;{File RMA, invoice 4 December 1917; Amsterdam 1934, no. 63.} 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, 15 February 1946 (inv. no. NK 2330);{Provenance from 1934 to 1945 reconstructed by Ekkart et al. 2006; MCCP website, file card no. 3669.} on loan from the SNK to the museum, 1948 (inv. no. SK-C-1384); 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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