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"tombstone": "Landscape with a Church by a Torrent\r\n, c. 1670. Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29\u20131682). Oil on canvas; framed: 100.3 x 83.8 x 10.8 cm (39 1/2 x 33 x 4 1/4 in.); unframed: 71 x 55.2 cm (27 15/16 x 21 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Jane Taft Ingalls, 1962.256",
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"1This painting was seized from Alphonse von Rothschild\u2019s collection and was initially requested by the Landesmuseum Linz. It appears as No. 4, Landschaft mit Kirche (81:64), in Album IV of Hitler\u2019s Gem\u00e4ldegalerie Linz Album, which catalogued the works intended for Hitler\u2019s planned Linz Museum. It is also listed as seized from Alphonse's collection (inv. AR 885) in the Vorschlag zur Verteilung der in Wien beschlagnahmte Gem\u00e4lde: F\u00fcr das Kunstmuseum in Linz of October 20, 1939, and the Verzeichnis der f\u00fcr Linz in Aussicht genommenen Gem\u00e4lde of July 31, 1940, both prepared by Hans Posse, special envoy for the Linz museum (Vorschlag zur Verteilung der in Wien beschlagnahmte Gem\u00e4lde: F\u00fcr das Kunstmuseum in Linz October 20, 1939. Linz Museum: Consolidated Interrogation Report (CIR) No. 4 (Attachments 56-82). Restitution Research Records. Records of the U.S. Occupation Headquarters, World War II, Record Group 260. National Archives Identifier 3725274. M1946, Roll 139, page 72. Fold3.com, http://www.fold3.com/image/#283755723, retrieved July 15, 2013, and Verzeichnis der f\u00fcr Linz in Aussicht genommenen Gem\u00e4lde July 31, 1940. Linz Museum: Consolidated Interrogation Report (CIR) No. 4 (Attachments 56-82). Restitution Research Records. Records of the U.S. Occupation Headquarters, World War II, Record Group 260. National Archives Identifier 3725274. M1946, Roll 139, page 84. Fold3.com, http://www.fold3.com/image/#283755711, retrieved July 15, 2013).
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