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"According to the provenance provided by Otto Naumann, Ltd. to CMA, Naumann/Galerie Sanct Lucas purchased the Ochtervelt in 1990 from a Viennese private collector, who Roman Herzig, director of Galerie Sanct Lucas, recalled was Dr. Steger.
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"To show their appreciation for his management of their postwar restitution proceedings, the Gutmanns sold to Steger some pieces from their collection, including the Ochtervelt (Roman Herzig, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Sept. 9, 2014). It is not known exactly when Gutmann sold the Ochtervelt to Steger.
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"According to the provenance provided to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Otto Naumann, Ltd. (\u201cNaumann\u201d), the painting was purchased on the Paris art market in the 1850s by the Gutmann family. Naumann concluded this because \u201cthe bulk of the Gutmann pictures were acquired in this way, and the frame that accompanied the painting was made in France in the mid-nineteenth century.\u201d To date CMA has been unable to confirm the foregoing conclusion. The date and circumstances of Gutmann\u2019s acquisition of the painting are unknown. In 1938, Gutmann and his wife Marianne fled Austria, escaping to Czechoslovakia and eventually settling in British Columbia, where they lived until Rudolf\u2019s death in 1966. Most of Gutmann\u2019s collection, which consisted of over 1000 objects, was seized by the Nazis during the war, much of it slated for the Linz Museum. According to Roman Herzig of the Galerie Sanct Lucas (email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Sept. 9, 2014), the Ochtervelt was among a group of artworks belonging to Gutmann that the family lawyer, Dr. Karl Josef Steger, hid, and it therefore escaped confiscation. Indeed, the Ochtervelt does not appear on the list of works confiscated from the Gutmann collection (\u201cAbschrift des Inventars des Sammlung R.G. [Rudolf Gutmann], Wien, I., Beethovenplatz 3, die in das Zentraldepot beschlagnahmter Kunstgegenst\u00e4nde in der Neuen Burg verbracht wurde, 1939\u201d) nor is it found on the list of confiscated works published in Sophie Lillie\u2019s Was Einmal War (2003), which documents Vienna\u2019s plundered art collections. In 1947, with the help of Dr. Karl Josef Steger, the Gutmann\u2019s lawyer, much of Gutmann\u2019s collection was restituted.
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"description": "Despite the calm demeanor and elegant disposition of the figures, this interior scene probably represents the interior of a brothel, signaled by the row of female portraits in the background, rarely found in other paintings of this period. The depiction of music provides another clue to the subject. The recorder and violin, played without scores, were perceived as cruder instrumentation and associated with prostitution, versus the elegant and complicated musicmaking seen in the work by Pieter de Hooch in the museum's collection.",
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"citation": "Ho, Angela K. Creating Distinctions in Dutch Genre Painting: Repetition and Invention. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017.",
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