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Portrait of a lady
Restitution status: Heirs being sought
Categories: Paintings / Oil Paintings
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
7981
Description
Painting, oil on canvas, 1797, on reverse, bottom right: 'X. Fabre / Florence / .797.', inventory number: 3493 (so-called Linz number, that is to say inventory number for the 'Sonderauftrag Linz' - Hitler's museum project for Linz), UNB (?)
Height
32.2 cm
Width
25.8 cm
Motif
Portraits
Period
18th Century
Provenance Data
Assignment from the Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments (Austria)
Provenance according to museum / collection
Vugesta - Dorotheum 1941 - Gallery St. Lucas 1944 - holdings of so-called 'Führermuseum', Linz - found after the war in Altaussee - Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments ('BDA') 1963
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The Art Restitution Advisory Board has decided on the restitution of the art.
The Art Restitution Advisory Board has recommended that the art or cultural object is to be restored to the owners or their legal successors.
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 is kept in the museum/in the collection.
Annotations
In its meeting on May 12, 2026, the Art Restitution Advisory Board unanimously reached the following decision: It is recommended that the Federal Minister for Housing, Art, Culture, Media, and Sports that the object be handed over to the legal successors of of Jean and Lucie Engel.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism