Lot 216: FRANZ TIMMERMAN

THE PROPERTY OF THE HEIRS OF DR WILHELM MAUTNER
ACTIVE IN HAMBURG CIRCA 1540
THE BEHEADING OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST
signed with initials and dated lower left: 1534. FT. and inscribed lower left: AVDENT PR...CL...P.. CV DICEREIVRA TYRANNIS/ INTERRIS SAN... PRAMIA TANTA FERVNT./ SEDTAMEN IN COELOMERCES PERMAGNA REPOSTAES./ ILLIS QVAM TANDEM TV PIE CHRISTE DABIS.
oil on pinewood panel
48.6 by 35.6 cm.; 19 1/8 by 14 in.

Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst, Old Master Paintings, An Illustrated Summary Catalogue, The Hague 1992, p. 290, no. 2556

Anonymous sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 14th May 1926, lot 196;
With C. van der Feer Ladèr, Baarn;
Dr. Wilhelm Mautner (1889-1944), Amsterdam;
Erhard Göpel, acquired from the above for Adolf Hitler's "Sonderauftrag Linz" (inv. no. 2996) in July 1943 for hfl. 24.000;
Recovered by the Allied forces and deposited with the Munich Central Collecting Point (inv. no. 3727) in 1945;
Returned to the custody of the Stichting Nederlandsch Kunstbezit, Holland in 1946 (inv. no. NK1655);
On loan to the Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht;
Restituted to the heirs of Dr. Wilhelm Mautner in 2010.