Portrait of a Young Man

Possibly a member of the de Rothschild family, Vienna, from about 1850.[1] Baron Louis de Rothschild [1882-1955], Vienna, probably by inheritance, by 1931;[2] (Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, put on consignment with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, May, 1947; transferred to Knoedler's regular stock in June with a portion owned by Rosenberg & Stiebel);[3] purchased February 1952 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [4] gift 1961 to NGA. [1] Not verified, but likely; stated in Ludwig Baldass, "Ein Frühwerk Hans Holbeins des Jüngeren." _Kunstchronik und Kunstliteratur_. Beilage zur Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst. 7/8 (1931): 61, and in M. Knoedler & Co. invoice of 6 February 1952 in NGA curatorial files. [2] This painting was confiscated by the Nazis from the Louis de Rothschild collection in Vienna in 1938 and was destined for Hitler's planned museum in Linz, Austria. It is listed on the 20 October 1939 _Vorschlag sur Verteilung der in Wien beschlagnahmte Gemaelde: Fuer das Kunstmuseum in Linz_ prepared by Hans Posse, and also his _Verzeichnis der fuer Linz in Aussicht genommenen Gemaelde_ dated 31 July 1940 (OSS Consolidated Interrogation Report #4, Linz: Hitler's Museum and Library, 15 December 1945, Attachments 72 and 73, National Archives RG226/Entry 190B/Box 35, copy NGA curatorial files. See also Linzer Kunstmuseum list, National Archives RG260/USACA, Records of the Reparations and Resitution Branch, Box 158, item no. 1112, LR 5). The records of the Munich Central Collecting Point indicate that the painting was recovered at Alt Aussee and restituted to Austria on 25 April 1946 with Rothschild as the presumed owner. (Munich property card #2306/7; Austrian Receipt for Cultural Property no. IIIa, item no. 29; copies in NGA curatorial files.) [3] Letter of 10 April 1987 to John Hand from Gerald G. Stiebel, Rosenberg & Stiebel, in NGA curatorial files, gives their source for the picture as the Vienna Rothschilds. M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Stock book no. 10, p. 34, no. A3695 (copy in NGA curatorial files). [4] M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Stock book no. 10, p. 34, no. A3695, and Sales book no. 16, p. 383 (copies in NGA curatorial files, see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1721).