Interior of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, Emanuel de Witte, 1680

…; collection Wilhelm Krause (1803-64), Berlin; from his wife, 850 DM (50 Freidrichsdor) to the Königliche Gemäldegalerie, later the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin, 1847 (on loan to the Gemäldegalerie in Wiesbaden from 1884 till 1918 or later);{Von Stockhausen 2000, p. 339, no. 730; coll. cat. Wiesbaden 1918, p. 56, no. 230.} exchanged with the dealer Galerie van Diemen & Co, Berlin, for another Interior of the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam by Emanuel de Witte, between 1925 and 1927;{Manke 1963, p. 121, nos. 206, 207.} … ; purchased by Anton Jurgens (1867-1945), Nijmegen, London?, and New York, 1928 or 1929;{Manke 1963, p. 121; London 1929, no. 312.} mentioned in his collection, 1935;{Rotterdam 1935a, pp. 39-40, no. 120.} ? from whose estate sold to the dealer B. Houthakker, Amsterdam, 1949;{Kaplan 2000, p. 44, note 60.} from whom, £ 1,250, to the dealer Duits, 1949;{GRI, Acc. no. 860290, Duits Ltd. (Gallery: London, England) records, 1920-1979, box 14, diary 1949.} from whom, fl. 31,061, to the museum, 1949;{Provenance reconstructed in Manke 1963, p. 121, no. 206.} on loan to the Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, since May 2006

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