L'Entrée des croisés à Constantinople (d'après Delacroix)
c. 1860
on displayEdgar Degas, artist1834 Paris – 1917 Paris
after Eugène Delacroix1798 Charenton-Saint-Maurice – 1863 Paris
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Also known as
Einzug der Kreuzritter in Konstantinopel (Nach Delacroix)
The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (After Delacroix)
Medium
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions
image: 35 x 38 cm
Inventory number
2006/0019
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, Donated by René Wehrli, 2005
Signature
not inscribed
Inscriptions
Verso centre left on stretcher in light brown: 12110 [vertical]; verso centre right on stretcher in red: [illegible, possibly RRem?]; below in red: 2023 [upside down]; verso top of stretcher in light brown: [illegible, partially covered by decorative frame] [... ] LES CADRES; verso top left on back protection yellow label, typewritten: Arts Council of Great Britain / 105 Piccadilly London W1V 0AU, next to it: 01-629 / exhibition THE PRIVATE DEGAS, next to it: 1986 / cat. no. 13 / owner Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland; below label with printed stamp: ATELIER ED. DEGAS, computer written: The Metropolitan / Museum of Art / October 1, 1997 - / January 11, 1998 / THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF / Edgar Degas; below label of the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft; verso top right, in transparent sleeve subsequently attached to the back protection: five old labels: Label, EXPRESS TRANSPORT Ltd / 27, Rue de Flandres, PARIS 18 / TRANSPORT DE TABLEAUX ET STATUES / NUMÉRO / [vertical, handwritten]: [illegible], AUTEUR: [handwritten] Degas / L'Entrée de croisés à Constantinople 35 x 38 / [illegible]/2820; below label Kunsthaus Zürich [Depot], typewritten: Besitzer: Dr R. Wehrli; below left oval label, in red, handwritten: [illegible]/34x37 cm; right next to it label, in ink, handwritten: 794 / RG / [in red] 2023; right next to it oval label, in ink, handwritten: 561 [crossed out], right next to it: RG.
Catalogue raisonné
Schulman 2021 42 (Online)
Accession year
2006
Provenance
- Edgar Degas (*1834 Paris, +1917 Paris) (Künstler/-in)
- o.D. – 12.6.1934, Jeanne Fèvre, Nizza, NachlassWerkverzeichnis Schulmann 2019 MS-42, https://www.degas-catalogue.com/recherche_fiches.php?id=42 (12.01.2022).
- 12.6.1934, Galerie Charpentier (Auktion), Paris, Vente Fèvre, Lot 138, Experts MM. Schoeller & A. WeillWie oben Fussnote 2: «André Schoeller [par ou pour lui ?]»; Brief von Alfred Vallotton, Les Arts Plastiques Moderne, Galerie Mouradian & Vallotton, Paris, 20.11.1969 an René Wehrli, Kunsthaus Zürich, vgl. ZKG/KHZ, Dossier Depot Wehrli gelöscht.
- 12.6.1934 – o.D., André Schoeller (*1879, +1955) (Kunsthändler/-in), Paris, Kauf, 4350 FRFArchives de Paris, Fonds Bellier, cote D149 E3 9.
- [Verbleib unbekannt?]
- o.D. – 1944, Robert Ellissen (*1872 Paris, +1957 La Teste-de-Buch) (Sammler/-in), ParisWie oben Fussnote 2.
- 6.1944 – o.D., Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR), Château Raba, Talence (Gironde), BeschlagnahmeWie oben Fussnote 2: «Spolié en juillet 1944 au château de Raba, Talence près de Bordeaux [Voir liste de réclamation des biens spoliés au Ministère des Affaires étrangères : https://www2.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/mnr/MnR-rbs.htm] - Liste des réclamations du 3 juillet 1945»; Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg. Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de Paume, https://www.errproject.org/jeudepaume/card_view.php?CardId=68403 (12.01.2022).
- Verbleib unbekannt
- o.D. – 18.3.1959, Jean Ellissen (*1899 Paris, +1978 Paris), ParisArchives de Paris, versement D150E3 30. Procès-verbal de vente: Etude Rheims, 9471, 18.03.1959, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, dossier Georges Arnaud: Das Werk wird als Nr. 10 (Ellissen), Nr. 39 (Lot-Nr.), Nr. 46 (Laufnr. Georges Arnaud) vermerkt und für 520 000 FRF von Jean Ellissen an Mouradian, 41 rue de Seine, verkauft (Galerie Mouradian-Vallotton).
- 18.3.1959, Galerie Charpentier (Auktion), Paris, Lot 39Wie oben Fussnote 2.
- 18.3.1959 – mindestens bis 1970, Galerie Mouradian-Vallotton (Galerie), Paris, Kauf, 520.000 FRFWie oben Fussnote 9.
- 1970 – 2005, René Wehrli (*1910 Frauenfeld, +2005 Zürich), Zürich, Kauf, (Direktor des Kunsthaus Zürich 1950–1976), ZürichKorrespondenz Claude Vallotton an René Wehrli, 24.02.1970, vgl. ZKG/KHZ, Dossier Depot Wehrli gelöscht.
- ab 2005, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, VermächtnisZKG/KHZ, Inventarbuch Slg.
Provenance category
cultural property confiscated as a result of Nazi persecution
About the provenance
Edgar Degas painted this work back in 1860, but retained it right up until his death in 1917. His niece and heir, Jeanne Fèvre, did not put this and other works from the artist’s estate up for sale in Paris until 1934. Via a Parisian art dealer, it was then acquired by the French industrialist and art collector Robert Ellissen. Ellissen was persecuted by the Nazis as a Jew. In June 1944, the work was seized at Château Raba in Talence near Bordeaux, by a Nazi organisation that systematically looted art and cultural property from occupied countries during the Second World War. After the war had ended, the work was returned to the family and sold no earlier than 1959 by Robert’s son, Jean Ellissen. It entered the Kunsthaus Zürich in 2005 from the bequest of the former Kunsthaus Director René Wehrli.
State of research 16.11.2023
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Literature (general)
- Degas. The Uncontested Master, Ausst.-Kat. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra: National Gallery of Australia, 2008, S. 44 f..
- Paths to Abstraction 1867-1917, hrsg. von Terence Maloon, Ausst.-Kat. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010, S. 18.
- Degas, Klassik und Experiment, hrsg. von Alexander Eiling, Ausst.-Kat. Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, München: Hirmer, 2014, No. 85, S. 35, 210 (ill.).
- Musée d'Orsay (Hrsg.): Manet – Degas (L'objet d'art; Hors-série), Paris: Gallimard, 2023, S. 20 (ill.).
- Manet – Degas, hrsg. von Laurence Des Cars/Stéphane Guégan/Isolde Pludermacher, Ausst.-Kat. Musée d'Orsay, Paris: Gallimard, No. 29, S. 42 (ill.).
- Manet - Degas, hrsg. von Stephan Wolohojian/Ashley E. Dunn, Ausst.-Kat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023, Kat. No. 16, S. 93.
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