The Rape of Tamar (Q20166930)

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painting by Eustache Le Sueur
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The Rape of Tamar
painting by Eustache Le Sueur

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    Rape of Tamar - Le Seur.jpg
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    The Rape of Tamar (English)
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    private collection, United Kingdom (until mid-1920s); [Siegfried Aram, Berlin and Schapbach, mid-1920s–July 1933; to Sommer as a contested part of his purchase of Aram's villa in Schapbach, Germany]; Oskar Sommer, Schapbach and Trier (July 1933–d. 1966); his daughters (1966–83; sold, Christie's, London, December 2, 1983, no. 45, as "Tarquin and Lucretia," by the Circle of Simon Vouet, for £108,000 to Stair Sainty Matthiesen); [Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York, and Colnaghi, New York, 1983–84; sold to The Met] (English)
    7 September 2021
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    Mr. Aram fought for decades, unsuccessfully, to reclaim the painting, which he argued had been illegally taken by a businessman, Oskar Sommer, to whom he sold his home in Germany. (English)
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    Experts later traced the painting back to the 18th century where they identified two prior French owners. But the painting was mistakenly thought to have been in a private collection for more than 100 years until the 1983 sale at Christie’s.Actually, as referenced in the Met’s new provenance for the work, it was held in a private collection in Britain in the mid-1920s when Mr. Aram bought it. The painting then passed “to Sommer as a contested part of his purchase of Aram’s villa in Schapbach, Germany,” the Met said on its website. (English)
    71H8122
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    The Rape of Tamar by Eustache Le Sueur
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