Portrait of a Woman Holding a Mask

Dr. Frederick (Fritz) Haussmann, Berlin, by 1931 and until 1944 [1]; with Jacob M. Heimann (art dealer), New York City, 1944 [2]. Given to Hilda L. Erlanger [ca. 1901-1988], New York City, 1945, and in her possession until at least 1962 [3]. Private collection, Connecticut [4]; (Sotheby’s Sale, New York City, June 7, 1978, no. 243) [5]; purchased by Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Ltd. on behalf of Oklahoma Museum of Art [6]; transferred to Oklahoma City Art Museum, 1989; transferred to Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2002.

[1] Voss, “Sammlung Dr. Fritz Haussmann,” (1931-1932), pg. 166; Italienische Malerei (1935); and Tietze, Three Baroque Masters (1944), no. 27
[2] Tietze, Three Baroque Masters (1944), no. 27; Sotheby’s, Catalog (1978), no. 243; and George, La Serenissima (2010), no. 25; on December 20, 1944, the work was at the Art Institute of Chicago as a possible purchase consideration, see correspondence from Kathryn Kremnitzer, Research Associate, Art Institute of Chicago, July 22, 2020 and label on verso
[3] Label on verso of work; in 1962 exhibition catalog, work listed as collection of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Erlanger (Arthur was the husband of Hilda), see Manning, Baroque Painters (1962), no. 29
[4] Sotheby’s, Catalog (1978), no. 243; this collection may have been that of Hilda Erlanger, who moved to Connecticut in 1963, see “Hilda Erlanger” in The American Alpine Journal (1989), pg. 331
[5] Sotheby’s, Catalog (1978), no. 243
[6] George, La Serenissima (2010), no. 25; La Serenissima catalog suggests that Mr. and Mrs. Erlanger owned the work at the time of the Sotheby’s sale, though this is not certain