Excavating the Construction Site of Maison de la Bourse

Conclusion

Who consigned this painting to Frederik Muller auction house in 1943 is unclear, as is the identity of the previous owner.

Explanation

This painting was listed at the Frederik Muller auction on 19 October 1943 as obtained from ‘Various collections and estates’. A comment penciled in the margin of an annotated catalogue states the buyer’s name: Mettes. This may refer to Kunstzaal J.J. Mettes & Co on Noordeinde in The Hague. This gallery specialised in the Hague School, Impressionists, Israels and Breitner in the 1940s and ’50s.
Investigators have not been able to trace who owned the painting between 1937 and 1943.

Reconstruction origin

? <> 1918-10-22

H.L. Berckenhoff (collection), The Hague

Museum inventory; see Kleykamp art gallery cat., The Hague, 22 October 1918, no. 7 (ill.)

1918-10-22 <>1918-10-22

Kunstzaal Kleykamp (auction), The Hague

See Kleykamp art gallery cat., The Hague, 22 October 1918, no. 7 (ill.)

1918-10-22 <> 1937

A.C. van Ommen Guylik (collection), Laren

Museum inventory; Rétrospective de l’oeuvre de Breitner cat., Brussels, 1932, no. 140

1943-10-19

Frederik Muller (auction), Amsterdam

See Frederik Muller cat., Amsterdam, 19 October 1943, no. 196

1943 -10-19 <> ?

Mettes (art dealer), The Hague

See Frederik Muller cat., Amsterdam, 19 October 1943, no. 196

Before 1947-10

Ter Beek, unknown

Breitner en Amsterdam exhibition cat., Amsterdam, 1947, no. 132

Before 1952-12-20 <> 1953-01-22

E.J. van Wisselingh (art dealer), Amsterdam

Museum inventory

1953-01-22 <> present day

Purchased by the museum from art dealer E.J. van Wisselingh

Museum inventory