The works posted here are representative examples of an ongoing project to investigate the provenance of the Gallery's European paintings and drawings; more works will be added in the future. The Gallery is also a participating institution, along with more than one hundred other museums in the U.S., in the American Association of Museums' Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal.

A claim was filed in October 2000, on behalf of the estate of the late Josephine Weinmann, for recovery of Le Grand Pont by Gustave Courbet, on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery since 1981 from the collection of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Monika Schaefer. A settlement agreement in 2001 led to the gift of the painting to the Gallery and its temporary return to the Weinmann family on ten-year loan. Two other paintings lent to the Gallery by Dr. and Mrs. Schaefer, Banquet in Temple Ruins by Hubert Robert and Drinnen und Draussen (Inside and Outside) by George Grosz, are presently the subject of provenance research [see the Hamburger Kunsthalle Paintings].

An inquiry, on behalf of the heirs of A. S. Drey Gallery, Munich, regarding the provenance of Apotheosis of Saint Roch by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was resolved with documentation that the painting had been purchased by Yale directly from the Paul Drey Gallery in New York in 1937.

Hamburger Kunsthalle Paintings

	Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877) Le Grand Pont, 1864 Oil on canvas, 37 3/8 x 50 3/16 in. (95 x 127.5 cm) Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Schaefer 2001.55.1 Provenance Coll. Marczell de Nemes (sold at auction, Gallerie Manzi-Joyant, Paris, 1913, no. 100); M. Bousquet, Paris (as Le Grand Pont); Coll. Mandelbaum, Berlin; Leo Lewin, Breslau; M. Silberberg, Breslau (sold by Graupe, Berlin, no. 19 as La Promenade de Robinson; with Wolfang Luck, Berlin (as Le Grand Pont).
	George Grosz (American, born Germany, 1893–1959) Drinnen und Draussen (Inside and Outside), 1926 Oil on canvas, 31 1/2 x 46 3/4 in. (80 x 118.7 cm) Lent by Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Schaefer ILE1981.9.12 Provenance Collection Markus Kruss, Berlin
	Hubert Robert (French, 1733–1808) Banquet in Temple Ruins, 1795 Oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 33 7/8 in. (100 x 86 cm) Lent by Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Schaefer ILE1981.9.8 Provenance With Wolfgang Luck, Berlin

Pierre Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919) Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1889 Oil on canvas, 20 7/8 x 25 1/4 in. (53 x 64.1 cm) The Katharine Ordway Collection 1980.12.14 Provenance Purchased by Katharine Ordway from the Bignou Gallery, New York, 1942