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[[File:Young_woman_in_a_window_feeding_a_parrot,_by_Caspar_Netscher.jpg|thumb|300px|'''Woman with a Parrot at a Window'' (1669) by Caspar Netscher]]
'''''Woman with a Parrot at a Window''''', '''''Woman at a Window''''' or '''''Woman with a Parrot''''' is a 1666 oil-on-canvas painting by [[Caspar Netscher]] (1639–1684), which has been in the [[National Gallery of Art]], in [[Washington, D.C.]], since 2016.
==Provenance==
===1930–1950===
Originally in the [[Alte Pinakothek]] in Munich, it was probably confiscated by the Nazi regime in the late 1930s to sell for foreign currency. It was handed to the [[Kunsthandlung Julius Böhler]] auction house which in 1938 sold it to a Dutch art dealer.<ref name="WZ20140206">{{in lang|de}} [http://www.wz-newsline.de/lokales/wuppertal/kultur/geht-die-dame-am-fenster-zurueck-an-die-erben-der-urspruenglichen-besitzer-1.1547795 Geht die „Dame am Fenster“ zurück an die Erben der ursprünglichen Besitzer?] [[Westdeutsche Zeitung]] (online) vom 6. Februar 2014.</ref> It was bought by the Jewish couple Hugo and Elisabeth Jacoba Andriesse in Belgium.<ref name="WZ20140129">{{in lang|de}} [http://www.wz-newsline.de/home/kultur/wuppertal-gibt-raubkunst-zurueck-1.1540990 Wuppertal gibt Raubkunst zurück] [[Westdeutsche Zeitung]] (online) vom 29. Januar 2014.</ref><ref name="WZ20140206" />
It and the rest of the Andriesses' collection were placed in the [[Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium]]'s store in 1939 for safe keeping and they fled to the United States via Portugal on the [[German invasion of Belgium (1940)|German invasion of Belgium]] the following year. Hugo died in 1942 in the USA, leaving his wife as his sole heir – she died in 1963.<ref name="VO004214">{{in lang|de}} {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202122122/https://www.wuppertal.de/rathaus/onlinedienste/ris/vo0050.php?__kvonr=15533&voselect=8353|title=Restitution eines Kunstgegenstandes aus ehemals jüdischem Besitz |archiv-bot=2019-03-11 17:36:47 InternetArchiveBot }}, Beschlussvorlage VO/0042/14 vom 14. Januar 2014 im Ratsinformationssystem der Stadt Wuppertal.</ref> The whole of the Andriesses' collection was confiscated by the [[Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce]].<ref name="WZ20140206" /> The "list of art objects handed over to Reichsmarschall Herman Göring's collection" for 1942 shows ''Woman'' was received on 14 March that year by the Paris working group.<ref name="VO004214" />
After World War Two the work passed to the art dealer Änne Abels in Cologne,<ref name="VO004214" /><ref name="WZ20140129" /> who in 1950 sold it to [[Rudolf Ziersch]] (1867–1962), an entrepreneur and art collector from [[Barmen]] who had previously been president of the Bergischen Industrie- und Handelskammer Wuppertal-Remscheid and chairman of the Kunst- nd Museumsverein Wuppertal<ref name="WZ20140513">[http://www.wz-newsline.de/home/kultur/kunst/nazi-raubkunst-aus-wuppertal-unterm-hammer-1.1635552 Nazi-Raubkunst aus Wuppertal unterm Hammer] [[Westdeutsche Zeitung]] (online) vom 13. Mai 2014.</ref> Later in 1950 Ziersch donated the work to the Städtische Museum Wuppertal (now known as the Von der Heydt-Museum) to mark its fiftieth anniversary.<ref Name="Hans Wille">Wille, Hans. ''Das Bild des Monats''. Städt. Museum Wuppertal, 1961.</ref>
===Restitution and acquisition===
Elisabeth Andriesse's heirs (a charitable institution in the USA) applied for the work's restitution in 2013.<ref name="VO004214" /> The City Council of [[Wuppertal]] formally voted on the resolution on 24 February 2014. At the end of January 2014, the compensation office had still not responded as to whether compensation payments had already been paid; the basic release was subject to this response.<ref name="VO004214" /> Further details of the restitution were then clarified at the administrative level. According to its director Gerhard Finckh, the Von der Heydt Museum had no objection to the work's return to Andriesse's heirs but realised that the work in effect "actually belongs to the Alte Pinakothek". Netscher painted seven versions of the picture, which complicated the issue, though a number on the back of the  work under discussion referred to the Alte Pinakothek.
The City Council of Wuppertal formally voted on the resolution on February 24, 2014. At the end of January 2014, the compensation office had still not responded as to whether compensation payments had already been made; the basic release was subject to this response.[4] Further details of the restitution were clarified at the administrative level. In May 2014 Andriesse's heirs announced they would like to auction the work for charity at [[Christie's]] in New York, giving the proceedings to a cancer centre. Christie's hoped the work would sell for 3 million US dollars (around 2.2 million Euros).<ref name="WZ20140513" /> It was in the end bought for 5 million US dollars to its present owner in October 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wuppertaler-rundschau.de/kultur/dame-papagei-und-fuenf-millionen-dollar-aid-1.6352091|author=Jörn Koldehoff|title=Ehemaliges Von-der-Heydt-Bild wechselt Besitzer: Dame, Papagei und fünf Millionen Dollar|language=de}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Paintings in the National Gallery of Art]]