Nijmegen, Netherlands
Dutch committee backs return of The Riddle of Nijmegen
The committee advised the city of Nijmegen to return Christiaen Coeuershof’s painting to the applicants in a binding opinion. Image: Museum Het Valkhof.
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Roosendaal, Netherlands
Conditional return advised for Ferdinand Bol’s Bouwens and Van Nutt portraits
A binding opinion advised the municipality of Roosendaal to return Bol’s portraits of Pieter Bouwens and Anna Maria van Nutt, subject to an indemnity condition.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam restitution opinion covers a portrait of Joan Huydecoper
The Dutch committee advised Amsterdam to return an anonymous portrait of Joan Huydecoper after Bartholomeus van der Helst. Image: Amsterdam Museum.
Case diagram by ArtTraceX · Levie collection · Two works · NK 1978 and NK 2729. Image source ↗
Netherlands
Two paintings returned to the heirs of Sam Bernhard Levie
The committee recommended returning two works, NK 1978 and NK 2729, to the Levie heirs. The heirs’ representative documents their return and identifies Amsterdam Town Hall as a copy after Gerrit Berckheyde.
Venlo, Netherlands
Return advised for Van Goyen landscape formerly owned by Gustaaf Hamburger
The Dutch committee recommended returning Landscape with Beggars and Two Horsemen by a Ruin, NK 2782, then on loan to the Limburgs Museum. Image: Limburgs Museum.
Case diagram by ArtTraceX · Maerten Fransz. van der Hulst · The Landing Stage · Semmel collection. Image source ↗
Groningen, Netherlands
Binding opinion backs return of The Landing Stage in the Semmel case
A binding opinion backed the return of The Landing Stage by Maerten Fransz. van der Hulst from the Groninger Museum. The painting was previously attributed to Jan van Goyen.
Case diagram by ArtTraceX · Margraf Group · Chastity with Two Putti · BK-1955-98. Image source ↗
Netherlands
Return advised for the Oppenheimer tapestry Chastity with Two Putti
The committee linked the sixteenth-century tapestry BK-1955-98 to the Margraf Group and a forced sale. It recommended restitution to the Oppenheimer heirs.
Case diagram by ArtTraceX · Hamburger collection · Ceramic dishes · NK 223, 444, 575. Image source ↗
Netherlands
Return advised for three Hamburger collection ceramic dishes
The committee recommended returning three glazed ceramic dishes, NK 223, NK 444 and NK 575, after provenance researchers alerted a member of the Hamburger family.
The Hague, Netherlands
Ferdinand Bol portrait singled out in Katz dealership claim
The Dutch committee recommended returning Man with High Cap, NK 1668, to the heirs of Benjamin and Nathan Katz. Its advice rejected restitution of the other 188 works in the application. Image: MuseumgoudA.
The Hague, Netherlands
Return advised for Van Brekelenkam’s Interior with Card Players
The Dutch committee recommended restitution of the Quiringh van Brekelenkam painting listed in the Netherlands Art Property Collection as NK 2924. Image: Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency (RCE).
Jan Steen, River Landscape with Figures and a Wagon by a Tower, NK 2655 · RCE / Wikimedia Commons Image source ↗
Netherlands
Return advised for Jan Steen’s river landscape to the Mautner heirs
The committee advised returning Jan Steen’s River Landscape with Figures and a Wagon by a Tower, NK 2655, to Wilhelm Mautner’s heirs.
Case diagram by ArtTraceX · Goldschmidt-Rothschild claim · Annunciation · NK 124 and NK 125. Image source ↗
Netherlands
Dutch panel advises against returning two Annunciation sculptures
The committee advised rejecting a claim by the Goldschmidt-Rothschild heirs for two alabaster sculptures attributed to Tilman Riemenschneider, NK 124 and NK 125.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Seven works stolen from Kunsthal Rotterdam
Report of the 16 October 2012 burglary targeting the Triton collection exhibition. The works remained missing at publication.
Case diagram by ArtTraceX · Salomon van Leeuwen · Beech chest · NK 3201. Image source ↗
The Hague, Netherlands
Return advised for a beech chest from the Van Leeuwen dealership
A beech chest, NK 3201, was traced to the stock of Salomon van Leeuwen’s antiques business. The committee found the loss involuntary and recommended returning it to the business’s successor.
The Hague, Netherlands
Return advised for two paintings from the Édouard Jonas collection
The Dutch committee recommended returning an anonymous portrait of a man with a dog and a cattle landscape by Theobald Michau to the heirs of Édouard Léon Jonas. Image: Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency (RCE).
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Juriaen Pool’s Goldsmith Guild portrait returned to the Stern estate
Concordia announced the restitution of Juriaen Pool II’s group portrait of the Amsterdam Goldsmith Guild. The Amsterdam Museum hosted the ceremony marking the return.
The Hague, Netherlands
Dutch committee recommends return of bronze Hercules
The recommendation concerns the Dutch National Art Collection’s bronze Hercules, formerly attributed to Hubert Gerhard, in an Oppenheimer restitution claim.
The Hague, Netherlands
Dutch committee rejects rival claims to Meunier’s Stonemason
The committee advised against both claims to Constantin Meunier’s bronze NK 414. Its research could not establish which Amsterdam dealer supplied it to the German gallery that acquired it during the war.
Utrecht, Netherlands
Return advised for a fifteenth-century Pietà from Fritz Gutmann’s collection
The Dutch committee recommended returning the limewood sculpture NK 688, then on loan to Museum Catharijneconvent, to Fritz Gutmann’s heirs.
Master of Frankfurt, Saint Christopher, NK 2556 · Mauritshuis / Wikimedia Commons Image source ↗
Netherlands
Return advised for Saint Christopher from Otto Mayer’s collection
The committee found that Saint Christopher, NK 2556, had belonged to Otto Mayer and was confiscated in 1933. It recommended returning the painting to his estate’s beneficiaries.
Hubert Robert, Landscape with Classical Temple, NK 1432 · RCE / Wikimedia Commons · PDM 1.0 Image source ↗
Netherlands
Return advised for Hubert Robert’s Landscape with Classical Temple
A competing claim linked Hubert Robert’s landscape, NK 1432, to the Rosenbaum dealership. The committee found that the postwar identification was likely mistaken and recommended return to the Mathiason heir.