Baronne Miriam Alexandrine de Rothschild (16 March 1884 – 15 March 1965) was an art collector and member of the Rothschild family.
Alexandrine de Rothschild | |
|---|---|
| Born | Baronne Miriam Caroline Alexandrine de Rothschild 16 March 1884 |
| Died | 15 March 1965 (aged 80) |
| Nationality | French |
| Spouse |
Albert Max Goldschmidt
(m. 1910) |
| Parent(s) | Edmond James de Rothschild Adelheid von Rothschild |
| Family | James Armand de Rothschild Maurice de Rothschild |
Early life
editBorn Alexandrine Miriam Caroline de Rothschild in Paris, on March 16, 1884, she was the youngest child and only daughter of Edmond James de Rothschild and Adelheid von Rothschild.
Personal life
editRelatives described Alexandrine as "similar to her cousin Alice: both were highly intelligent, authoritarian and inclined to appear plain.[1]
Alexandrine "studied medicine, later specializing in dietetics" and had an avid love of gardening.
On December 15, 1910, Alexandrine married her cousin Albert Max Goldschmidt, the couple later divorced.
Art patronage
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Alexandrine was a patron of they arts and collected work from various European artists. After her father's death in 1934 Alexandrine inherited the Château Boulogne-Billancourt and maintained the property grounds. A year after Paris fell to Nazi Germany in 1941 and the Château was seized by the Nazis and confiscated her private art collection.
In November 2021, Meules de blé[2] (1888), was sold at Christie's for $35 million after a three party restitution agreement involving the heirs of Max Meirowsky, Alexandrine de Rothschild, and representatives for Cox's estate.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
Later life and death
editIn order to avoid further Nazi persecution Alexandrine fled to Switzerland. She resided at St. Moritz at the time of her death. Alexandrine was 80 when she died on March 15, 1965, in Baden, Switzerland. She posthumously funded the Beni Israel Trust to Israel.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Miriam Caroline Alexandrine (Miriam Alexandrine) de Rothschild (1884-1965) | Rothschild Family". family.rothschildarchive.org. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
- ^ "The Cox Collection: The Story of Impressionism | VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890) | Meules de blé Meules de blé". www.christies.com.
- ^ Villa, Angelica (2021-11-12). "Van Gogh, Warhol Bring Christie's Modern Art Sales to $751.9 M.: 'You Won't Find Another One of These Soon'". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2021-11-16.
- ^ Hamel, Christopher De (2005). The Rothschilds and Their Collections of Illuminated Manuscripts. British Library. ISBN 978-0-7123-4897-3.
- ^ Catalogue of Important Old Master Drawings: Including the Property of the Late Madame Alexandrine de Rothschild ... Sotheby & Company. 1967.
- ^ Wilson, Gillian; Heginbotham, Arlen (2021-03-30). French Rococo Ébénisterie in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Getty Publications. ISBN 978-1-60606-632-4.
- ^ "Baronne Miriam Caroline Alexandrine de Rothschild (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)". The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
- ^ "Boulogne. L'ancien château des Rothschild attend son sauveur". leparisien.fr (in French). 2014-08-05. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
- ^ "Van Gogh painting stolen from Rothschild by Nazis sells for $35.9m". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 2022-06-22.
- ^ Chalvet, Maurice (1992). Inventaire de la bibliothèque de Madame Alexandrine de Rothschild, 18.-1965 (in French).