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Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Drawings / Pen-and-ink drawings
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
29227
Description
Pen-and-ink-drawing in brown on yellow-brown paper, blindly indented with stylus, in the corners register marks, corrections by scratching in the left areas, traces of an oval frame in the corners, 19th century, stamp: Josef Alois Ruf (Lugt number 2182 bottom left), labelled, at bottom left: 'TS' (pen-and-ink-drawing in brown), to left: '29227' (inventory number)
Height
44.2 cm
Width
35.5 cm
Motif
Allegories and histories
Period
1st half of the 19th Century, 2nd half of the 19th Century
Provenance Data
Former owner according to museum / collection
Ruf, Josef Alois
Purchase from the Dorotheum 1938-45
Provenance according to museum / collection
Josef Alois Ruf (Lugt n. 2182, below left). Acquired from the Dorotheum, Vienna, 467th art auction, 8 to 10 July 1941, lot 486
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The questionable nature of the provenance of the art or cultural object is being or has been examined by the museum/the collection/the Commission for Provenance Research. So far, the case has not been dealt with by the Art Restitution Advisory Board.
No recommendation has been issued yet.
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
No decision has been reached so far.
The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism