Meadhbh Ginnane

@mginna.bsky.social

Senior Research Associate for provenance research at the Art Institute of Chicago https://www.artic.edu/collection-information/provenance-research

Excited to share my research into this eighteenth-century drawing that was looted from Maurice de Rothschild's collection in Nazi-occupied Paris. Moving from the Louvre to the Jeu de Paume to Alt Aussee, the drawing was restituted to Rothschild in 1946 www.artic.edu/articles/115...

From Looted to Restituted: Journey of a Drawing from Paris to Chicago | The Art Institute of Chicago

It is not usually the case that an artist has to hide while attempting to draw a portrait.

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Nicolas Revire, my colleague on the Art Institute of Chicago's provenance research team, has written a fascinating article about his research into a 12th-century Khmer pilaster, which led to the museum's decision to return this ancient and sacred artifact to Thailand: www.artic.edu/articles/115...

A Sacred Pilaster Returns Home | The Art Institute of Chicago

In January 2023, I joined the provenance research team at the Art Institute, tasked with studying objects in the collection from Southeast Asia.

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