Entrée d'un gave
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Entrée d'un gave ("Source of a mountain stream") is an 1876 oil painting by French artist Gustave Courbet which is part of the European collection at the Birmingham Museum of Art.
The painting was owned by department store owner MoïseLévy de Benzion before World War II. In 1941 it was appropriated by occupying Nazi forces under the direction of Hermann Goering, and later traded to a private art gallery in Lucerne, Switzerland. It was among the artworks recovered from by the Allied Forces' Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives section (MFAA) and was returned to Benzion's heirs on December 15, 1948.
The work was acquired by the museum in 1999.
References
- Nancy H. Yeide. Beyond the Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection