ProvEnhance - Collection Risk Assessment of Artworks Acquired by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, 1933-1960

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Almstadt, Fenya; Leroux, Alexandre, 2025, "ProvEnhance - Collection Risk Assessment of Artworks Acquired by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, 1933-1960", https://doi.org/10.34934/DVN/AGUMFK, Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA, V1, UNF:6:rKAfC3m7TDrMrg4UfFTsyg== [fileUNF]

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Description	As part of the research project “ProvEnhance. Enhancing the provenance data of the collections of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (RMFAB) since 1933 – Scientific study, digital valorization and narrative in context”, the collections of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium are examined as a case study to advance Belgian Nazi-era provenance research, aiming to progress it in alignment with the Washington Principles. Therefore, a preliminary risk assessment typically performed in the realm of Nazi-era provenance research, referred to as the “First Check” was conducted. The objective was to evaluate the necessity and priorities for additional research within the specified project corpus to aid in revealing possible historical injustices and to identify the rightful owners if needed. As a result, this dataset brings together the already available provenance information for the artworks included in the project corpus, offering a base for further exploration of object histories and the museum’s network involved in the acquisitions. Although the compiled data is not exhaustive to date, it provides a basis for future in depth-research. Publishing this dataset aims at rendering the histories of the objects, the biographies of former owners, and the underlying practices of the RMFAB accessible and transparent – all while situating them in their historical context. (2025-12-15) (2025-12-15)
Subject	Arts and Humanities
Keyword	art museums (institutions), provenance, art collections
License/Data Use Agreement	Custom Dataset Terms

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Persistent Identifier	doi:10.34934/DVN/AGUMFK
Publication Date	2025-12-16
Title of Dataset	ProvEnhance - Collection Risk Assessment of Artworks Acquired by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, 1933-1960
Alternative Title	Provenhance - First Check
Author	Almstadt, Fenya (Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium) - ORCID: 0009-0008-2026-566X Leroux, Alexandre (Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium) - ORCID: 0000-0003-1058-4743
Point of Contact	Use email button above to contact. Leroux, Alexandre (Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts) Data Management (Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts)
Description	As part of the research project “ProvEnhance. Enhancing the provenance data of the collections of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (RMFAB) since 1933 – Scientific study, digital valorization and narrative in context”, the collections of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium are examined as a case study to advance Belgian Nazi-era provenance research, aiming to progress it in alignment with the Washington Principles. Therefore, a preliminary risk assessment typically performed in the realm of Nazi-era provenance research, referred to as the “First Check” was conducted. The objective was to evaluate the necessity and priorities for additional research within the specified project corpus to aid in revealing possible historical injustices and to identify the rightful owners if needed. As a result, this dataset brings together the already available provenance information for the artworks included in the project corpus, offering a base for further exploration of object histories and the museum’s network involved in the acquisitions. Although the compiled data is not exhaustive to date, it provides a basis for future in depth-research. Publishing this dataset aims at rendering the histories of the objects, the biographies of former owners, and the underlying practices of the RMFAB accessible and transparent – all while situating them in their historical context. (2025-12-15) (2025-12-15)
Subject	Arts and Humanities
Keyword	art museums (institutions) (AAT) http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300312302 provenance (AAT) http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300055863 art collections (ATT) http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300386365
Topic Classification	provenance (AAT) http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300055863
Language	English
Producer	ProvEnhance Project (Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium) (ProvEnhance) https://fine-arts-museum.be/en/research/research-projects/provenhance
Production Date	2025-10-21
Production Location	Brussels, Belgium
Contributor	Researcher : Almstadt , Fenya Data Manager : Leroux, Alexandre
Funding Information	Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO): B2/233/P2/ProvEnhance
Distributor	Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium (Belgian Science Policy Office) (RMFAB) https://fine-arts-museum.be
Depositor	Leroux, Alexandre
Deposit Date	2025-12-15
Time Period	Start: 1933 ; End: 1960
Date of Collection	Start: 2023-10-01 ; End: 2025-10-01
Data Type	machine-readable text
Series	provenhance: Serie of data produced by the ProvEnhance Project (B2/233/P2/ProvEnhance) funded by Belspo
Software Used to Create the Dataset	R, Version: 4.4.3
Data Source	The provenance data compiled in the data-set is mainly based on sources from the RMFAB's institutional archives (https://historicalarchives.fine-arts-museum.be/). These include inventory books, object dossiers (Dossiers oranges), documents on acquisitions (Agenda files (up to 1939), acquisition proposals from 1940 onwards (PA-Series), minutes of meetings of the responsible commissions (RPV)) and the museum’s yearbooks. In some cases, external auction and exhibition catalogues were consulted, for example to verify information retrieved from the object dossiers. In the case of paintings that were assigned to the RMFAB by the ORE in the 1950s, the provenance information was retrieved from the database Cultural Goods World War II (https://cultural-goods-wwii.fine-arts-museum.be/en/home).
Origin of Historical Sources	RMFAB's institutional archives (https://historicalarchives.fine-arts-museum.be/) Database Cultural Goods World War II (https://cultural-goods-wwii.fine-arts-museum.be/en/home).

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Universe	Museum Collection
Number of Variables	9

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