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Moses and his Ethiopian Wife
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Mr. Vandergucht, by 1788, [location and mode of acquisition unknown]; Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, 15 March 1788, lot 38; Mr. Oliver [location unknown], 1788, by purchase. Sale, Galerie Fiévez, Brussels, 19-20 December, 1924, no. 70 (illustrated). Collection Van Gelder, Ukkel, by 1928, [mode of acquisition unknown]; June 1944 sold by the widow Van Gelder to Maurice Lagrand, Brussels; sold to auction house Dorotheum, Vienna on 29 july 1944 (Dorotheum nr. 217645/15); sold to the Linz collection of Adolf Hitler; found by the Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives-division in the salt mines in Alt-Aussee, Monsberg on 20 November 1944 (Aussee-nr. 2193/2) and transferred to the Collection Point München (Munich nr. 44692); restituted to Belgium, 1948 (Dienst Economische Recuperatie nr. A.342); on permanent loan to the Rubens House since 1951, formerly owned by the Flemish Government.
Measurements
H: 45 11/16 × W: 40 15/16 in. (116 × 104 cm); Framed, H: 57 7/8 × W: 53 1/8 × D: 2 3/4 in. (147 × 135 × 7 cm)
Credit Line
On loan from the Rubenshuis, Antwerp
Location in Museum
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
IL.2023.43.1