La Ronde Enfantine (Q50821371)
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painting by Gustave Courbet
- Children Dancing: Beneath the Trees at Port-Berteau
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| English | La Ronde Enfantine |
painting by Gustave Courbet |
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1862
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Beneath the Trees at Port-Berteau: Children Dancing (English)
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Selon le musée Fitzwilliam, la peinture a été retrouvée par des soldats alliés à la fin de la guerre dans des tunnels secrets en Bavière (sud-est de l’Allemagne). Elle a refait surface en 1951, quand un marchand d’art londonien, Arthur Tooth and Sons, l’a achetée à un Suisse, Kurt Meissner, soupçonné de pillage par les autorités américaines. (French)
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Shortly before the Nazi occupation of France in 1940, a Jewish engineer from a prominent family fled his Paris home with his mother, abandoning their apartment in the city’s affluent 16th arrondissement.Among the possessions they left behind was a 19th-century painting of a lush forest scene, with children playing under a canopy of trees. As the Nazis took over, the artwork — by Gustave Courbet, the French realist painter — was carried off and reserved for the collection of a top Nazi official, while the engineer, Robert Bing, joined the French Resistance, working to distribute clandestine newspapers on behalf of the movement.A decade after it was stolen, the painting ended up at the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, where it has remained since. (English)
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The Fitzwilliam Museum has recently been made aware of new evidence relating to the provenance of the painting, in particular that it may have been seized in Paris by Nazi agents during the Second World War. This evidence has been referred to the Spoliation Advisory Panel, convened by the Secretary of State for the Department of Culture, Media, and Sport, for recommendations (English)
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PD.28-1951
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52.1 centimetre
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66.5 centimetre
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15 November 2018