Dutch art market, sold ca. 1914 to; Michiel Maximiliaan van Valkenburg (1866–1950),(1) Huis Ross, Lochem, Laren (as by Adriaen van de Velde), sold 1944 to; [Goudstikker/Miedl, Amsterdam, taken by Alois Miedl (1903–1990) to Bilbao, Spain, recovered in his possession in Bilbao, 1945, and returned to]; Michiel Maximiliaan van Valkenburg;(2) [G. Cramer, The Hague, by 1970, sold 1971 as by Anthonie van Borssom to]; Mr. and Mrs. Edward William Carter, Los Angeles, given 2009 to; LACMA.
Footnote
(1) Michiel Maximiliaan van Valkenburg was a lawyer in Rotterdam. Following his death in 1950, a sale of his collection was held by Nijstad, Lochem, on 29–30 May 1951. The Carter painting was not included in the sale.
(2) Archive of the Netherlands Art Property Foundation (Stichting Nederlandisch Kunstbezit, SNK), The Hague, Aangifte-formulier, no. 3531, dated 1 December 1945. Alois Miedl was the Nazi banker who purchased the Goudstikker firm in Amsterdam after Jacques Goudstikker fled the Netherlands and then died in 1940. Miedl sold approximately six hundred paintings to Hermann Goring (1893–1946). In a letter from Cramer to Carter dated 27 May 1971 (Hans Cramer Records, Box 110, Folder 4, Getty Research Institute), Cramer notes, "The picture came from the Miedl estate and I bought it in Germany." Cramer’s exact source for the picture is not known.
