Due Diligence, Provenance Research, and the Acquisition Process at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: far-reaching nature of these resolved claims, the MFA has deaccessioned, or officially removed from its collection: an ancient bronze statuette, which had been stolen from the Mus6e de la Chartreuse in Douai, France in 1901; a marble torso of Weary Herakles, in response to claims that it had been looted from Turkish soil; a medieval embroidery that had been taken from the Diocesan Museum in Trent, Italy, during World War II; thirteen unprovenanced classical antiquities for repatriation to the Republic of Italy; and a 15 th-century painting of the Madonna and Child, plundered from a home in Warsaw during the 1940s.'The MFA's most widely-publicized restitution occurred in 1971, after a small panel painting, optimistically attributed to Raphael, had been brought into the
Author: Victoria S. Reed
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2570038165