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Venus and Cupid

Adriaen van der Werff (Dutch, 1659-1722)

Venus and Cupid
oil on panel, h. 14 3/8" x w. 11 5/8" (h. 36.5 x w. 29.5 cm)

Signed and dated (1684) bottom left

Publication(s):

1751 van Gool, Johan. De Nieuwe Schouburg der Nederlantsche Kunstschilders en Schilderessen. Vol. 2. 's Gravenhage, 1751: 561.

1914 Katalog der Königlichen Gemäldegalerie zu Schleissheim. 1914: 267, no. 3833

1967 Five Centuries of Northern European Masterworks from the Collection of Claire Mendel. Lowe Art Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, 1967: no. 24

1987 Gaehtgens, Barbara. Adriaen van der Werff. Munich, 1987: 223, no. 19

2007 Kessler, Horst. Karl Haberstock. Umstrittener Kunsthändler und Mäzen. Berlin, 2007: 272, 284, 304: fig.1992

2009 Baumstark, Reinhold. Kurfürst Johann Wilhelms Bilder. Vol. 2. Munich, 2009: 247, no. 241

Provenance:

June 1929 - Aug. 1939

Gemäldegalerie Schleissheim, Munich

(Catalog 1914, No. 3833)

by Aug. 1939 - Sept, 1939
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Sale to Haberstock approved by Fischer of Bayer. Staatsministerium, Munich, August 18, 1939
(Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich)

Sept. 1939 - Nov. 1939

Karl Haberstock (dealer), Berlin
Purchase price: RM 3,500; sale price RM 6,800.

(Kessler 2007: 272, 284)

Nov. 1939 - unknown
Reichsminister Dr. Wilhem Frick (collection), Berlin

(Kessler 2007: 284)

by 1967 - 1986
Claire Mendel (collection), Miami Beach, Florida

(Catalog 1967: no. 24)

1986 - present
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, Florida
(84-P/M-12 // Cat. No. DC 467451)

Conclusion:;

Provenance data remain inconclusive. It is not known whether Frick owned the painting until his death in 1946, or whether it remained with his family after 1946. Nor is it known how or when Mendel obtained the painting, other than that he owned it by 1967.

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