Portrait of Joan Huydecoper

Anoniem (kopie naar Bartholomeus van der Helst)

Anonymous (copy after Bartholomeus van der Helst)

Item information

Portrait of Joan Huydecoper

Paintings
Amsterdam Museum

Reconstruction of provenance history

Vóór 1941-02
: Private collection
:
: Museum inventory

1941-02 <> 1945-05-05
: Goudstikker/Miedl (art dealer), Amsterdam
:
: Museum inventory; Goudstikker/Miedl inventory card

Vóór 1955
: Joseph M. Morpurgo (art dealer), Amsterdam
:
: Museum inventory

1955
: Purchased by the museum from Joseph M. Morpurgo art dealer
:
: Museum inventory

1955 <> 2015-03-30
: Amsterdam Museum [nl]
:

Current restitution status

Restituted
: 2015: On 30 March 2015 the Restitutions Committee gave binding advice to restitute this painting to the legal successors of its former owner. In December 2015 this painting was restituted to the successors of its former owner.

Research findings

This painting probably belonged to a Jewish collector who felt compelled under the wartime conditions to sell some of his paintings.

The former owner of the painting fled from Berlin to the Netherlands in 1938. In 1943, he was forced to go into hiding. Early in the 1940s he had been forced to sell paintings from his collection to meet his everyday expenses. Some were sold through Jacques Goudstikker's art gallery, then directed by Alois Miedl, a German. The museum is in contact the heirs of the Jewish collector.
Het schilderij behoorde vermoedelijk tot de collectie van een joodse verzamelaar, die onder druk van de oorlogsomstandigheden genoodzaakt was enkele van zijn schilderijen te verkopen. [nl]

De voormalige eigenaar van het schilderij vluchtte in 1938 vanuit Berlijn naar Nederland. In 1943 was hij gedwongen onder te duiken. Begin jaren 40 was hij genoodzaakt schilderijen uit zijn verzameling te verkopen om in zijn levensonderhoud te voorzien. Enkele daarvan werden verkocht via kunsthandel Jacques Goudstikker die op dat moment onder leiding stond van de Duitse Alois Miedl. [nl]

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