Study Sheet with a Girl’s Head, a Hand, and an Arm Holding a Guitar, Jean Antoine Watteau, 1705 - 1721

Inv.; purchased by Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse (1753-1830), Darmstadt, 1812;{Coll. cat. Cordellier 2007, p. 526, no. V.25.} acquired by the state of Hesse and transferred to the Groβherzogliche Museum, Darmstadt, 1830;{Coll. Cat. Cordellier 2007, p. 20.} sold by the Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, after 1933;{Coll. cat. Cordellier 2007, p. 526, no. V.25; formerly known as Groβherzogliches Museum.}…; purchased from the estate of Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} 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, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

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