204. Portrait of a Woman in a White Dress with a Black Belt [1821.]
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204. Portrait of a Woman in a White Dress with a Black Belt [1821.]
watercolor on ivory, 9.5 x 8 cm, signed and dated lower right, in black, "J. Parent 1821"
PROVENANCE
Until the late 1940s: historical collection of Ervin Weiss (1884-1966) and Branka Weiss (1902-1975); 1947: The Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of Croatia declares the Weiss collection a private collection of public importance; After 1949: The collection is inventoried by the communist regime, followed by confiscation; 1955: It is transferred into the care of the Modern Gallery, where it is kept for the next 70 years; After 2021: The collection becomes the property of the Weiss family successors, after nearly 30 years of legal procedures for restitution.
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