Forensic Provenance Summary Recent posts by @ArtRecoveryInit document dozens of specific match candidates — artworks and personal property identified in wartime seizure records at the @HolocaustMI — cross-referenced against museum catalogues, auction listings, gallery websites,

⚖️ A Bruyn and a Corot: What a 1944 Police Protocol Reveals About Two Masterworks in Budapest State Museums 🔍 The Archival Record A Budapest State Security Police protocol dated 22 May 1944 — file 202/1944 K.B. — records artworks confiscated from Jewish families and

🎻 Iványi Grünwald Béla’s “Hegedűs” — Seized from a Jewish Collector in 1944, A Corresponding Painting Sits in the Hungarian National Gallery Today 📜 The Archival Record A Hungarian government transfer acknowledgment — Átvételi elismervény — dated 13 May 1944, file 3/944,

🕯️ From 1944 Seizure Inventory to “Private Property”: A Thorma from Miklós Weiser’s Collection and an Unresolved Provenance Gap 📜 The archival record A Hungarian government seizure inventory compiled under Decree 1830/1944 M.E. records artworks confiscated from the Budapest

🔍 Evidence in Plain Sight: Two Paintings Seized from Jewish Collections in 1944 Surface at Auction — One Catalog Documents Its Own Wartime Theft 📜 The Archival Record A Hungarian government protocol dated 30 May 1944 — file 203/1944, page 10 — bearing the Kormánybiztos stamp

🔎 Documented in 1944. Still There Today: Two Herzog Isenbrandt Panels at the Szépművészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest) 📜 The Archival Record On 19 June 1944, during the German occupation of Hungary, officials acting under the authority of Dénes Csánky — Government

🎨 Possible Match Identified: Jacob de Wit Allegory Linked to the 1944 Kaszab Seizure Inventory Research into the June 15, 1944 seizure of the Kaszab collection (File 140/1944) has identified a strong archival correspondence with a painting currently held by the Museum of Fine

🎨 Christ Seized in 1944: A Giampetrino From the Herzog Collection Surfaces in a Budapest Museum New archival research into Holocaust-era art confiscations in Hungary has uncovered a precise wartime record for a Renaissance painting now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. 📜

🎨 A 1944 Seizure Record and a Renoir Portrait in Budapest Continuing archival research into wartime confiscations in Hungary has revealed a significant document relating to a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. 📜

🎨 1944 Szeged Seizure Record and a Mednyánszky “Winter Landscape” on the Hungarian Art Market Archival records from wartime Hungary continue to raise important provenance questions about artworks displaced during the Holocaust. 📜 1944 seizure inventory — Szeged A Hungarian

🎨 A 1944 Seizure Record and an Amerling Portrait in Budapest Continuing our review of the 15 June 1944 seizure inventory from the Budapest apartment of widow Aladárné Kaszab (V. ker., Szabadság tér 15), documented under Hungarian Decree 1830/1944 M.E. 📜 Item #4 on the list

🖼️ Sándor Liezen-Mayer Painting Seized in 1944 from Jewish Owner Appears in 2025 Budapest Auction with “No Export” Status In 1944, during the systematic seizure of Jewish-owned property in Hungary under Government Decree 1830/1944 M.E., officials inventoried artworks taken from

Caravaggio’s Saint John the Baptist: 99 cm Width Appears in 1944 Record and Two Auction Listings On 12 May 1944, a stamped Budapest intake protocol (Jegyzőkönyv) documented the removal of artworks from Mátyás király út 34, a Luftwaffe Kommando storage site. Entry #5

🕵️‍♂️ A 107 cm “Fingerprint”: Is a Large Rachel Ruysch Oil Painting in Washington, D.C., Linked to a 1944 Budapest Seizure Record? From a 1944 Budapest wartime inventory record tied to the Csetényi family residence, officials listed a work attributed to Rachel Ruysch: 1944

Holocaust-Era Seizure Record Points to Two 17th-Century Bridal Chests in Budapest Museum Collection An official Hungarian government document issued by the Kormánybiztos (Government Commissioner for Jewish Property Affairs) records cultural objects seized from Jewish-owned

Tracing the Herzog Family Van Ceulen: 1944 Transfer vs. 2008 “Acquisition” On 24 July 1944, an official inventory prepared for the Szépművészeti Múzeum (Museum of Fine Arts), Budapest recorded artworks removed from the Budapest residence of Herzog István (Szemlőhegy út 29/b).

Double Discovery 🔎🖼️: 1944 Losonc transfer record vs. Hungaricana images — looted Rudnay Gyula coronation paintings in the Történeti Képtár? On 28 August 1944, the Government Commissioner’s office in Losonc recorded the transfer of two large-scale Rudnay Gyula oil paintings for

🚨 Dr. Lázár Béla’s 1944 Forced Deposit: Where is the “Woman in the Blue Hat”? On 31 March 1944, Jewish art historian Dr. Lázár Béla was compelled to deposit 12 works at the Hungarian National Museum (Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum) “for exhibition, without liability.” #10 on the

From 1944 Seizure to 2025 Auction: A Rudnay Gyula Painting and an Unanswered Provenance Question 📜 File 110/1944 – Item #66 Seized 22 June 1944 from Vilmos Szilárd, antique dealer Budapest XIII., Csanády u. 19 Official Government Commissioner inventory (Aréna út 41) records:

🔎🖼️ The Csetényi Connection: Does the Sarto Madonna Hide a Stolen 1944 Paper Trail? 📜 Reel 143, slides 283–286 (The Csetényi File) | Budapest, 17 June 1944 A stamped Kormánybiztos-era inventory (Budapest XIV, Aréna út 41) records the state seizure of 49 paintings from the home