The Muse Inspiring the Poet is a 1909 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Henri Rousseau, forming a double portrait of Marie Laurencin and Guillaume Apollinaire. Owned for a time by Paul Rosenberg, it is now in the Kunstmuseum Basel.[1] Another version of the work is now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.
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In 2021, the heirs of Charlotte von Wesdehlen, the widow of the Jewish art collector Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, requested that the Kunstmuseum Basel restitute the work. The museum purchased it in 1940 through the Swiss art dealer Christoph Bernoulli, Basel.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ "Catalogue entry" (in German).
- ^ Keystone-SDA (2024-01-16). "Basel art museum rejects restitution claim for Henri Rousseau painting". SWI swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
- ^ "Kunstmuseum Basel - Sammlung Online - La Muse inspirant le poète". sammlungonline.kunstmuseumbasel.ch. Retrieved 2024-01-18.