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AntonGraff
Bildnis Johanna Dorothea Richter, der Mutter Ludwig Richters (Portrait of Johanna Dorothea
Richter,LudwigRichter’smother),c.1813
Oiloncanvas,57.4x46.7cm(64.5x58.0x6.4cm)
on recto, frame, lower centre, plate engraved: “Anton Graff 1736-1813 Bildnis der Mutter Ludwig
Richters”
onverso,frame,lowerleft,remnantofalabeloftheshippingcompanyGustavKnauer;lowerright,
inscribedinblue:“139”[incircle]
on stretcher, centre left, purple stamp: “56”; upper centre, inscribed in blue: “Gurlitt […]”; upper
centre, purple stamp: “46”; upper right, handwritten label: ”16.”; centre right, purple stamp: “56”;
lowerright,inscribedinblue:“139”[incircle],lowercentre,purplestamp:“46”
canvasrelinedandmountedonnewstretcher
Provenance:
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AcquiredinParisin1943throughTheoHermsenJr.byHildebrandGurlitt,Dresden
Bylatest2012:CorneliusGurlitt,Munich/Salzburg
From6May2014:EstateofCorneliusGurlitt
Bibliographicalreferences:
500HandzeichnungenundAquarellealterundneuerMeister:SammlungM***-Dresdenundaus
anderemBesitz(=AntiquariatskatalogNr.318).Auct.cat.,Zahn&Jaensch,Dresden,n.d.[related
tono.107,ill.]
Berckenhagen, Ekhart. Anton Graff: Leben und Werk. Berlin: Deutscher Verlag für
Kunstwissenschaft,1967.[no.1164,listedaswhereaboutsunknown]
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Primarysources:
MinistèredesAffairesétrangères,Archivesdiplomatiques,Paris:
AchatsallemandsenFrance,nos.209SUP/824,209SUP/389[11December1942]
Demandesdelicencesd'exportation,nos.209SUP/869[19January1943]
BusinessrecordsHildebrandGurlitt–references:
Salesledger1937–41:
12November1938[no.54]
4February1942[no.136]
Salesledger1937–?:
1938[no.1140]
4Feburary1942[no.1140]
BusinessrecordsHildebrandGurlitt–possiblereferences:
Salesledger1937–41:
20September1943[no.1797]
Salesledger1937–?:
20September1943[no.1797]
1944[no.1797]
CorrespondenceHildebrandGurlitt:
24February1948[vol.9,fol.171f.]
CorneliusGurlittPapers,Salzburg:
Photographs,no.7.1_F766[11August1938]
SeizureInventory[Sicherstellungsverzeichnis],2012,no.SV(Part2)/091
Furthersourcesconsulted:
Muther,Richard.AntonGraff.DoctoralDiss.,Leipzig:E.A.Seemann,1881.
Vogel,Julius.AntonGraff:BildnissevonZeitgenossendesMeistersinNachbildungenderOriginale.
Leipzig:Breitkopf&Härtel,1898.
Waser,Otto.AntonGraffvonWinterthur:BildnissedesMeisters.ZurichandLeipzig:Kunstverein
Winterthur,1903.
CulturalPlunderbytheEinsatzstabReichsleiterRosenberg:DatabaseofArtObjectsattheJeude
Paume
Database“CentralCollectingPointMünchen”
Database“KunstsammlungHermannGöring”
GettyProvenanceIndex,GermanSalesCatalogs
Lootedart.com
LostArt
RépertoiredesBiensSpoliés
RijksbureauvoorKunsthistorischeDocumentatie
VerzeichnisnationalwertvollerKunstwerke(“Reichslistevon1938”)
WittLibrary
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Note:
PortraitofJohannaDorotheaRichter,néeMüller,thewifeoftheartistKarlAugustRichter.The
couple’s eldest son was the well-known landscape painter Ludwig Richter (1803 Dresden–1884
Dresden).Apreliminarystudyforthisportrait,renderedinblackcrayonwithwhiteheightening,is
alsoknown(Berckenhagen,no.1163).
According to the extant sale ledgers, Hildebrand Gurlitt purchased a work described as Anton
Graff,MotherofL.Richter,fromtheartdealerPaulRuschofDresdenon12November1938for
thesumof2,000reichmarks.HethereafternotedthesaleofsameworkinFebruary1942toErich
Hoefersforjust645reichmarks.
An entry dated 20 September 1943 notes the acquisition from Theo Hermsen of another Graff
femaleportraitforthesumof12,000reichmarks.
ThepersonalpapersfoundinCorneliusGurlitt’sSalzburghomeincludeacollectionofabout2,400
photographs of artworks. Photograph no. 7.1_F766 is a reproduction of this work; on verso, a
handwritten object description; at lower right, company stamp of the photographer Bergmann
und Burchardi of Dresden, Wallstrasse 1. Attached to this photograph, a typed statement of
authenticitybythearthistorianKarlWilhelmJähnigdated11August1938.
TheCorneliusGurlittPapersalsocontainaletterof24February1948fromWolfgangBalzer,then
director of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, confirming the identity of the sitter as
LudwigRichter’smother.
The numbers stamped in purple on the painting support refers to the stretcher size (metric
measurement).
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