A Girl Kissing a Satyr Boy, Allegory of Love

A Girl Kissing a Satyr Boy, Allegory of Love

BK-16988-A

• sculptor: attributed to workshop of Jan Pieter van Baurscheit (I), Antwerp
• sculptor: attributed to Jacob Vennekool [rejected attribution]

c. 1720 - c. 1730

sandstone

• height 105 cm x depth 63 cm x width 47 cm x weight 160 kg
• width 42.6 cm x depth 45 cm (plinth incl. Medusa mask)

Public domain

…; excavated at the site of Huis Noorthey, Veur, c. 1900;{Correspondence Jonkheer H. van der Wijck, Doorn, 1969 and advertisement by the dealer C. Krijzer in _Oude Kunst_, February 1916.} …; the dealer C. Krijzer, Rotterdam/The Hague, before September 1916;{Advertisements in _Oude Kunst_, February 1916 and September 1917.}…; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, before 1933;{Photo album ‘Het huis van Dr F. Mannheimer, Amsterdam’, 1928-32, Rijksmuseum, inv. nos. B-F-1963-426-2 and B-F-1963-426-3.} from whom, fl. 6,350,000, _en bloc_, to Artistic & General Securities Ltd. as security for a loan from the Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, but kept in usufruct, 1934;{NHA, 476, RMA Archive, inv. no. 2142, Recapitulatie der geïnventariseerde kunstvoorwerpen van wijlen Dr F. Mannheimer, undated, p. 99, nos. Bk 60 a-b, Artistic no. 42/18; NHA, 233, Arrondissementsrechtbank Amsterdam, inv. no. 1365, ‘O.R. 256/1939, Faillissementsdossier: nalatenschap Dr. F. Mannheimer, 28 augustus 1939’, image 3, page 2.} purchased from Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, _en bloc_, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler’s Führermuseum, Linz and transferred to Hohenfurt Monastery, Bohemia, 1940;{E.J. Korthals Altes, _Verzameling Mannheimer_, Amsterdam 1974, pp. 21-22; F. Kieslinger, _Sichergestellte Kunstwerke in den besetzten Niederlandischen Gebieten_, Vienna 1941, no. 885 (Bk. 60).} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1953; Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

• Jaarverslag van het Rijksmuseum 1953, p.23
• C.W. Dubbelaar, H.-J. Tolboom, N. Verhulst et al., 'De brugbeelden en tuinsculpturen van kasteel Amerongen : materiaal, historie, conditie en conservering', Geological Survey of Belgium Professional Paper (2014) nr. 1, p. 45-46, noot 10.

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