This was one of the dresses that the Germans wanted to get their hands on during the second World War. In 1942 Jews in the Netherlands were forced to declare and hand in “collections of any kind“ at Lippmann & Rosenthal, later known as the ‘Duitse roofbank‘ (German stealing bank). This also included items that were on loan, such as this dress which had been loaned to the Centraal Museum in 1936 by Emma Gompertz-Jitta, a Jewish lady who was an ardent feminist and very socially involved. The Empire line dress became part of the museum collection after it had been shown in The Costume of our Ancestors exhibition. “It would be such a huge acquisition“ recorded Carla de Jonge at the close of the exhibition. Emma died in 1941, and in 1942 Lady De Jonge, who was now director of the museum, did everything in her power, with success, to preserve Emma‘s loan and other items which were stored in the museum cellars for the duration of the war. A granddaughter, Emma Verloop-Cohen, inherited the dress but gave it to the museum out of gratitude for the risks Carla had taken
Title
Meisjesjapon met sleep
Artist
Dating
1805 - 1810
Material and technique
Object number
7802
Object type
Acquisition
schenking + 1984 (bruikleen sinds 1936)
Dimensions
hoogte 223 cm
breedte 86 cm
diepte 1 cm
Documentation
- Uit de Mode : collectie van het Centraal Museum, Voorw. Bart Rutten, tekst Ninke Bloemberg, Anne-Karlijn van Kesteren, Rosalie Sloof … [et al.] (Utrecht, 2017), p. 26, afb. in kleur p. 27
Exhibitions
Persistent url
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