Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep
| Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep | |
|---|---|
| French: La Bergère Rentrant des Moutons | |
 | |
| Artist | Camille Pissarro |
| Year | 1886 |
Shepherdess Bringing in the Sheep (French: La Bergère Rentrant des Moutons) is a painting by Camille Pissarro from 1886.
Ownership dispute
[edit]Looted by the Nazis from Raoul Meyer during the German occupation of France, the Pissarro painting was the object of a restitution claim by Raoul Meyer after the war against the art dealer Christoph Bernoulli[1] and again decades later by his daughter, Léone-Noëlle Meyer, against the Fred Jones Jr. Museum at the University of Oklahoma.[2][3][4] The museum fought the claim.[5] A settlement was reached in 2016 which involved the circulation of the Pissarro between the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art and the Musée d'Orsay.[6] The settlement was later called into question and the case landed back in court.[7][8]
See also
[edit]Sources
[edit]- ^ "French Woman Sues University of Oklahoma to Recover Nazi-Looted Art". www.lootedart.com. Archived from the original on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
Raoul Meyer collected a large number of French impressionist paintings before World War II. His art collection was seized by the Nazis during the occupation of France and the Vichy government. After the war he worked to recover the looted paintings. In 1953, he sued Swiss art dealer Christoph Bernoulli, who had bought the Pissarro work. A Swiss judge dismissed the suit, saying a five-year window for such lawsuits had passed. The museum has cited the Swiss suit to prove that it can keep the painting. The painting changed hands several times before being donated to the university in a bequest from Aaron and Clara Weitzenhoffer.
- ^ Editor, Andrew Clark, News, L&A (5 August 2015). "State rep calls for allowance of physical inspection of Nazi-stolen painting". OU Daily. Archived from the original on 2021-06-01. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "La Bergère – Meyer Heirs and Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art — Centre du droit de l'art". plone.unige.ch. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
- ^ "Leone Meyer v University of Oklahoma" (PDF).
Unbeknownst to Raoul Meyer and his heir, La Bergère entered the David Findlay Galleries in New York in the fall of 1956 as part of an exhibit of "French Paintings of the XIXth and XXth centuries" from the collection of E. J. van Wisselingh & Co., an art dealer based out of Amsterdam, Holland.
- ^ "University of Oklahoma fights claim to a Nazi-looted Pissarro painting". Los Angeles Times. 2015-03-15. Archived from the original on 2019-12-10. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
In its motion to dismiss the case, the university contended that a Swiss court's 1956 ruling against Meyer's father deserves to be respected because those proceedings were "full and fair," and should not be revisited in the United States. But a new era of international accords recognizes that Jews' claims to Nazi-looted property in fact often were not handled fairly by postwar authorities in Europe.
- ^ Carvajal, Doreen (2020-12-17). "Will a Looted Pissarro End Up in Oklahoma, or France?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2021-05-29. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
Dr. Meyer's mother, grandmother, uncle and brother died in Auschwitz. Her father hid the painting in a French bank that was looted in 1941 by the Nazis, and the work vanished in the murky universe of art market collaborators and middlemen. Decades later, in 2012, she discovered the whereabouts of "La Bergère," or "Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep," in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, at the University of Oklahoma. In 2016, she brokered a compromise to rotate it between the university and a French museum.
- ^ editor, Blake Douglas, news managing (19 April 2021). "Looted Pissarro heiress Léone Meyer, OU attorney Thaddeus Stauber speak on court clash over Nazi-looted painting". OU Daily. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ JEAN-ROBERT, Alain. "French Holocaust survivor ratchets up battle with US over Nazi-looted painting". www.timesofisrael.com. Archived from the original on 2021-05-29. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
A French Holocaust survivor battling with an American university, over a painting by Camille Pissarro that was stolen by the Nazis, went to court in Paris on Tuesday to try to block the university from suing her for millions of dollars.
- Joachim Pissarro et Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro - Catalogue critique des peintures.Volume III.
External links
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- Notice du musée d'Orsay[dead link]
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