Angel from the Annunciation to the Virgin, Jacopo Tintoretto, 1560 - 1585

Inv.; collection Prof. Dr Otto Lanz (1865-1935), Amsterdam, 1914, 1923;{Swarzenski 1914, image 8 and 9; Von der Bercken/Mayer 1923, Band I, p. 188; Von der Bercken/Mayer 1923, Band II, unpag., image 42.} his widow, Anna Theresia Elisabeth Lanz - Willi (1870 - 1954), Amsterdam, 1935; from whom, CHF 2,000,000 and fl. 350,000, with xx other paintings, to Hans Posse (1879-1942), for Adolf Hitler’s Führermuseum, Linz, through the mediation of the dealer N. Katz, 1941 (inv. no. 3216);{Van Os 1978, p. 167; the Linz inv. no. 3216 is recorded on a label on the reverse of the painting.} war recuperation, SNK, 20 November 1945 (inv. no. NK 2353);{Provenance from 1776 to 1945 reconstructed by Ekkart et al. 2006; MCCP website, file card no. 9023; the Munich Central Collecting Point number 9023 and 9042 is recorded in blue on the reverse of the paintings.} on loan from the SNK to the museum, 1948 (inv. no. SK-C-1401 and inv. no. SK-C-1402); transferred to the museum, with pendant, SK-A-3987, 1960

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