De grootmoedigheid van Scipio, Philip Tidemann, 1667 - 1705

… ; collection Boguslaw Jolles (d. 1912), Dresden and Vienna (L. 381); his sale, Munich (H. Helbin), 28 October 1895 sqq., no. 334, as Gerard de Lairesse (‘Scipio Africanus gibt Allucius seine Braut wieder. H. 24,7, B. 19,8 cm. Feder- und Tuschzeichnung. Unter der Zeichnung fünfzeilige Schrift mit Angabe, dass das Bild für Mevrouw de Weduwe Baalde gemalt wurde.’), DM 5, to Dr Michael Berolzheimer (1866-1942), Fürth, Bavaria;^[Copy RMA]; from whom confiscated, 1938; anonymous sale, Munich (A. Weinmüller), 9 March 1939 sqq., no. 292, as Gerard de Lairesse (‘Die Grossmut des Scipio, Feder u. Tusche. Unten Schriftzeilen. 24,5 : 20.’); …; collection Richard Holtkott (1866-1950), Bedburg, near Cologne (L. 4266); his widow, Elsa Graber (d. 1956), Bedburg, near Cologne; her sons, Alfred Holtkott (1903-80), Cologne, and Walter Holtkott (1916-96), Cologne; anonymous sale, Cologne (Lempertz), 6 December 1997, no. 1536, as Gerard de Lairesse, DM 1900, to the museum

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