Valland, a museum employee and a member of the French Resistance, recorded the systematic theft of artworks by the Nazis, taking note of their German inventory numbers.
From whom acquired by the present collector. Exhibitions New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Grand Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19 October 1974 - 5 January 1975, no. 137; Montreal ...
Rose Valland (1898-1980) was a French art historian and curator at the Jeu de Paume in Paris and a member of the Resistance who secretly recorded details of art plundered by the Nazis. The Virginia ...