Frame depicting the Annunciation, Baptism of Christ, Entry into Jerusalem, Saints Cecilia and Catherine of Alexandria, Trinity (Gnadenstuhl, Mercy Seat), and four Music-making Angels, Giovanni di Francesco del Cervelliera (circle of), 1450 - 1460

…; sale, Richard von Kaufmann (1850-1908, Berlin), Berlin (Cassirer & Helbing), 4 December 1917 sqq., no. 49, 15,000, to Carl Moll (1861-1945, Vienna);{Copy RKD; the frame was offered with a painting, Italienischer Meister des 15. Jahrhunderts.}….; the dealer Kurt Walter Bachstitz, The Hague, 1931;{HNA, SNK Archive, inv. no. 178.} from whom, fl. 70,000, to Hans Posse, for Adolf Hitler’s Führermuseum, Linz, through the mediation of the dealer J.G. Wigman, The Hague, 4 May 1944 (inv. no. 3527); war recuperation, SNK, 8 July 1946 (inv. no. NK 1787);{Provenance from 1939 to 1945 reconstructed by Ekkart et al. 2006; MCCP website, file card no. 4691.} transferred from the DRVK, to the museum, 1960

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