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Peasant girl shovelling
Restitution status: Return to the heirs has occurred
Categories: Paintings / Watercolours
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
34804
Description
Watercolour, stamp, bottom right: 'NACHLASS / PETTENKOFEN (i.e. the estate of Pettenkofen)'
Motif
Genre
Period
1st half of the 19th Century, 2nd half of the 19th Century
Provenance Data
Assignment from the Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments (Austria)
Provenance according to museum / collection
Acquired from the so-called Art Museum, Linz (i.e. Hitler's museum project) in 1944. Transferred to the Albertina by the Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments ('Bundesdenkmalamt') in 1963 (Zl. 1274/63: Finally inventorised in 1965). A report to the Commission for Provenance Research is available.
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The art restitution case is closed.
The committee in charge has recommended if possible to restore the art or cultural object, if owners or their legal successors can be established.
Federal Minister for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport
The body in charge has decided to restore the art or cultural object to the owners or their legal successors.
The art or cultural object was restituted to the owners or their legal successors.
Annotations
The painting was restituted to the heirs of Louis Rothschild in 2025 following the recommendation of the Advisory Board dated 15 June 2018.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism