The missing Jordaens from the museum in Łódź
A gift to the municipal collection became one of the museum’s major wartime losses. A surviving image records the particular Annunciation that disappeared.
A donation by Karol Eisert brought this Annunciation into the municipal museum in Łódź that preceded today’s Muzeum Sztuki. The catalogue identifies an oil on canvas by Jacob Jordaens measuring 153.5 by 116 centimetres. The photograph preserves a visual record of that version of the familiar biblical scene.
When Nazi Germany annexed Łódź, the museum came under German management. The museum’s wartime history documents the dispersal of collections and the transfer of objects to repositories in Saxony. Soviet forces later took possession of some crates associated with the museum.
That collection history supplies several directions for research. The museum separately names this painting among its major wartime losses and distinguishes it from other lost Jordaens canvases, including The Four Evangelists and a mythological scene with young Bacchus. Its account gives no confirmed present location for the Annunciation.
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