(Q119505764)
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Previous owner Previous owner/ex-collection: Auguste Desperet (Lugt 721; Paris, Clement, 7-13.vi.1865/173) Previous owner/ex-collection: Alexander Emil Posonyi (According to the Lanna sale catalogue) Previous owner/ex-collection: Adalbert von Lanna (Stuttgart, Gutekunst, 7.v.1910/505, bought by Dolch for 135 Reichsmarks)Previous owner/ex-collection: Arthur Feldmann (Lucerne, Gilhofer and Ranschburg, 27-28.vi.1934/194) (English)
15 June 2023
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A British Museum spokeswoman expressed disappointment that the pictures could not be returned in this "exceptional" case without a law change. A Department for Culture, Media and Sport official said the judge's ruling had clarified the issue, adding: "We will now look seriously at the case for legislative action."The drawings are: St Dorothy with the Christ Child (1508), by a follower of Martin Schongauer; Virgin and Child Adored by St Elizabeth and the Infant St John, by Martin Johann Schmidt; An Allegory on Poetic Inspiration with Mercury and Apollo by the 18th century English artist Nicholas Blakey; and the Holy Family by the 16th century Bolognese artist Niccolo dell'Abbate (English)
27 April 2006
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This drawing was included in the collection of old master drawings belonging to Arthur Feldmann, which was wrongfully seized by the Gestapo from his home in Brno on 15 March, 1939. It is one of four drawings that were claimed from the British Museum by Uri Peled on behalf of the heirs of Arthur Feldmann on 13 May 2002. The Trustees accepted the evidence for the claim on 27 July 2002, and following consideration of the case by the Spoliation Advisory Panel on 27 April 2006, the heirs received an ex gratia payment from the government in compensation for the loss of the drawings. The claimants wished for the drawings to remain in the British Museum, and it was agreed that display would carry an acknowledgement of the Feldmann provenance and the circumstances of the loss in 1939. (English)
11 June 2024
1949,0411.98