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Title	The Joseph and Ernest Brummer Records, 1890-1946 : [finding aid]
Creator	Brummer, Ernest Brummer, Joseph
Description	Joseph and Ernest Brummer were art dealers who collected widely from the arts of classical antiquity and the Middle Ages to decorative arts and modern artists. They first established a gallery in Paris in 1906. In 1914, Joseph moved to New York where he opened his own gallery. Ernest joined him there at the outbreak of WWII. Joseph died soon after in 1947 and a large sale of sculpture from his collection was organized in 1949. Ernest died in 1964.; Records primarily include the business papers of the brothers. Files date ca. 1890-1946, with the bulk of the material dating from the early 20th century through 1945.; The records offer information on objects which were offered for sale in the galleries. Provenance information includes previous owners, prior locations, identity of buyers, purchase and sale prices.; Records include: bills and correspondence; photographs and negatives of objects for purchase, views of the gallery and displays, personal family images; some printed/published material; account books for the Paris and NYC galleries; acquisition and sale books, with pages arranged by category, holding small photos with I.D. numbers written below (I.D. number usually preceded by the letter P, N, or X); and card files with names and addresses of clients and a near-complete inventory of their collections. Collection provenance: Donated to the Metropolitan Museum in the early 1980s, through Ella Baché Brummer, wife of Ernest Brummer. Transferred to The Cloisters Archives in 1993.
Subject	Brummer, Ernest -- Art collections Brummer, Joseph -- Art collections Brummer Gallery (New York, N.Y.) Art dealers -- United States Art dealers -- France
Date	1890; 1891; 1892; 1893; 1894; 1895; 1896; 1897; 1898; 1899; 1900; 1901; 1902; 1903; 1904; 1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928; 1929; 1930; 1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940; 1941; 1942; 1943; 1944; 1945; 1946
Dimensions	Finding aid: 4 pages; Collection: 26 boxes + 1 file cabinet (35 linear ft.);Arrangement varies. Object inventory cards are arranged by I.D. number, sales books by date, and acquisition/sale books by medium. By looking within the acquisition/sale books an I.D. number can be located on an object's photo. If the date of purchase is known for a particular piece, invoices note I.D. numbers. Once an object's number is known, the card files can be checked for purchase and sale information.
Format (Medium)	Finding aids Correspondence Photographs Administrative records Invoices
Digital Collection	Cloisters Archives collection Finding Aids and Indexes
Repository	Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Provider	Cloisters Library and Archives
Language	English
Type	Text
Copyright Status	copyrighted
Copyright Notice	Copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Open for research by appointment from The Cloisters Library and Archives staff
Copyright Information	The Libraries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art make digital versions of collections accessible for research purposes in the following situations: They are in the public domain; the rights are owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art; we have permission to make them accessible; we make them accessible as a fair use, or there are no known restrictions on use. To learn what your responsibilities are if you'd like to use the materials, go to http://www.metmuseum.org/information/terms-and-conditions
Watsonline record number	b16669009
Link to Watsonline record	http://library.metmuseum.org/record=b1666900
OCLC number	777833880