Bildnis der Tochter Mary. Um 1912.
Pastel on board.
Cf. Voss 381-384. Lower right signed. 53 x 45 cm (20.8 x 17.7 in), octagonal.
[CB].

We are grateful for the assistance from the Max Stern Art Restitution Project (Montreal) as well as their partners, The Holocaust Claims Processing Office (New York).
Furthermore we are gratful to Mr. Ludwig Sichelstiel from the Art Collections of The Nuremberg Municipal Museum for his kind advice.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Julius Stern, Düsseldorf, catalog no. 3, auction 23, January 1932, Paintings from Rhenish public and private collections, lot 144.
Städtisches Museum, Nuremberg, Department of Graphic Art, inventory no. 457 (acquired from aforementioned on 15 February 1935 (Max Stern has been the owner since 1934); verso with typographically inscribed label).
Galerie Scheidwimmer, Munich, acquired from Städtisches Museum Nuremberg in 1977.
Peter Karbstein & Norbert Schultze, Düsseldorf, auction on 12 October 1991, lot 67.
Lempertz, Cologne, 19 November 1994, lot 1733 (with black-and-white illu. in cat.)
Privatsammlung Süddeutschland.

LITERATURE: Claudia Gross-Roath, Das Frauenbild bei Franz von Stuck (dissertation, Bonn 1998), Weimar 1999, NB62 (incl. black-and-white illu.).