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Portrait of a lady

Restitution status: Heirs being sought

Categories: Paintings / Oil Paintings

Object Data

Artist

Fabre, Francois-Xavier

Museum

Belvedere

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

Provenance

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

Committee

Art Restitution Advisory Board

Pendency

The Art Restitution Advisory Board has decided on the restitution of the art.

Recommendation

The Art Restitution Advisory Board has recommended that the art or cultural object is to be restored to the owners or their legal successors.

Committee in charge

Federal Minister for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport

Decision

The body in charge has decided to restore the art or cultural object to the owners or their legal successors.

Implementation

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.

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