Wolfgang Heimbach

Baron et Baronne Cassel van Doorn, Cannes and Ruoms;

Confiscated by ERR (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, Aktion Berta) and deposited in Bad Aussee, Austria in 1943;

Repatriated from Central Collecting Point, Munich to France in 1947;

Restituted by République Française to Baron et Baronne Cassel van Doorn on 12 August 1947;

With Jacques Ollier, Paris;

From whom acquired by Hans and Marion König, 1986.

The German portraitist Wolfgang Heimbach spent most of his career in Denmark, where he worked for the Copenhagen elite and portrayed King Frederick III and Queen Sophie Amalie on several occasions. Heimbach, who was deaf-mute, depicted his sitters with an unpretentious sincerity. As the inscriptions indicate, he executed the present pair soon after the wife's death on 11 May 1653.