Object Acquisition and Loan

Introduction

The majority of recorded provenance events are when the object changes ownership, and the various methods in which that happens. In the descriptions below the terms 'seller' and 'buyer' are used to refer to the actor that is relinquishing ownership and the actor that is gaining ownership, even if there is no money or other goods or services changing hands. This is for clarity and conciseness of the descriptions, and not to imply that every transaction is a purchase.

Object Acquisition

Acquisitions are used to describe the transfer of ownership of an object from one owner to the next. The first owner is typically the artist, who would then transfer it to the second owner, to the third owner and so on. The ownership chain can be expressed by repeating this same pattern with the buyer from one acquisition being the seller in the subsequent one. If the previous owner (e.g. the seller if there is a value exchange) or the subsequent owner (e.g. the buyer) is not known for a particular acquisition, then the reference can be left out from the description.

The acquistion is not necessarily a purchase, it could be a gift, an inheritance or any other method of gaining the right of ownership of an object.

The model encodes this information with an Acquisition part of the overall Provenance Event. The acquisition is the transfer of the right of ownership of an object (referenced in transferred_title_of) from the seller (in transferred_title_from) to the buyer (in transferred_title_to).

Each object has its own Acquisition as part of the provenance event, so if a collector buys three paintings from a dealer, then there would be a single Provenance Event with three Acquisitions, all of which transfer the title of a single painting from the dealer to the collector.

Example:

Oliver Payne acquired Spring from the Durand-Ruel Gallery in New York in 1909

{
  "@context": "https://linked.art/ns/v1/linked-art.json",
  "id": "https://linked.art/example/provenance/durand_payne/1",
  "type": "Activity",
  "_label": "Purchase of Spring by Payne",
  "classified_as": [
    {
      "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300055863",
      "type": "Type",
      "_label": "Provenance Activity"
    }
  ],
  "identified_by": [
    {
      "type": "Name",
      "classified_as": [
        {
          "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300404670",
          "type": "Type",
          "_label": "Primary Name"
        }
      ],
      "content": "Purchase of Spring by Payne from Durand-Ruel"
    }
  ],
  "timespan": {
    "type": "TimeSpan",
    "begin_of_the_begin": "1909-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "end_of_the_end": "1909-12-31T23:59:59Z"
  },
  "part": [
    {
      "type": "Acquisition",
      "_label": "Ownership of Spring to Payne",
      "transferred_title_of": [
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/object/spring",
          "type": "HumanMadeObject",
          "_label": "Spring"
        }
      ],
      "transferred_title_from": [
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/person/durand",
          "type": "Person",
          "_label": "Durand-Ruel Gallery"
        }
      ],
      "transferred_title_to": [
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/person/payne",
          "type": "Person",
          "_label": "Oliver Payne"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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Multiple Owners

In the simple case of multiple simultaneous owners where either the division of the ownership is unknown or an even split, all of the owners can simply be listed with transferred_title_from (when the group is selling) or transferred_title_to (when the group is buying).

If there is additional information known about the exact nature of the ownership division, then it is worth considering the more complex and more expressive section on rights to describe this in more detail.

If there are multiple parties that have formally entered into a legal consortium or organization, and that consortium is the legal owner of the object, then the consortium should be modeled as a Group with the parties as members, and be the sole owner of the object.

Example:

The Yale University Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art jointly purchased a painting by Kehinde Wiley in 2021 from an undisclosed seller.

{
  "@context": "https://linked.art/ns/v1/linked-art.json",
  "id": "https://linked.art/example/provenance/yuag_ycba_wiley/1",
  "type": "Activity",
  "_label": "Purchase of Painting",
  "classified_as": [
    {
      "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300055863",
      "type": "Type",
      "_label": "Provenance Activity"
    }
  ],
  "timespan": {
    "type": "TimeSpan",
    "begin_of_the_begin": "2021-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "end_of_the_end": "2021-12-31T23:59:59Z"
  },
  "part": [
    {
      "type": "Acquisition",
      "transferred_title_of": [
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/object/yiadom-boakye",
          "type": "HumanMadeObject",
          "_label": "Portrait of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye"
        }
      ],
      "transferred_title_to": [
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/group/yuag",
          "type": "Group",
          "_label": "Yale University Art Gallery"
        },
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/group/ycba",
          "type": "Group",
          "_label": "Yale Center for British Art"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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Agents

In some cases, it is known that an agent other than the buyer carried out the acquisition. This can be modeled by associating a different actor from the buyer (the person who title is transferred to) carrying out the activity.

Example:

In 2014, the family heirs of Oliver Payne sold Spring (by auction at Christie's) to Otto Naumann, acting for the J. Paul Getty Museum.

{
  "@context": "https://linked.art/ns/v1/linked-art.json",
  "id": "https://linked.art/example/provenance/payneheirs_getty/1",
  "type": "Activity",
  "_label": "Purchase of Spring for Getty",
  "classified_as": [
    {
      "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300055863",
      "type": "Type",
      "_label": "Provenance Activity"
    }
  ],
  "part": [
    {
      "type": "Acquisition",
      "_label": "Acquisition of Spring",
      "carried_out_by": [
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/person/naumann",
          "type": "Person",
          "_label": "Otto Naumann"
        }
      ],
      "transferred_title_of": [
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/object/spring",
          "type": "HumanMadeObject",
          "_label": "Spring"
        }
      ],
      "transferred_title_from": [
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/group/payne_heirs",
          "type": "Group",
          "_label": "Family of Oliver Payne"
        }
      ],
      "transferred_title_to": [
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/group/getty",
          "type": "Group",
          "_label": "J. Paul Getty Museum"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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Exchange of Objects

This pattern allows for the exchange of objects between two parties by simply adding a second Acquisition.

Example:

In 1962, the Yale University Art Gallery exchanged a "Nude Woman" by Beckmann for a "Personnages dans un parc" by Masson.

{
  "@context": "https://linked.art/ns/v1/linked-art.json",
  "id": "https://linked.art/example/provenance/yuag_stora/1",
  "type": "Activity",
  "_label": "Exchange of Objects",
  "classified_as": [
    {
      "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300055863",
      "type": "Type",
      "_label": "Provenance Activity"
    }
  ],
  "part": [
    {
      "type": "Acquisition",
      "_label": "Acquisition of Personnages",
      "transferred_title_of": [
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/object/masson_personnages",
          "type": "HumanMadeObject",
          "_label": "Personnages dans un parc"
        },
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/object/beckmann_nude",
          "type": "HumanMadeObject",
          "_label": "Nude Woman by Beckmann"
        }
      ],
      "transferred_title_from": [
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/group/feigen",
          "type": "Group",
          "_label": "Richard Feigen Gallery"
        },
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/group/yuag",
          "type": "Group",
          "_label": "Yale University Art Gallery"
        }
      ],
      "transferred_title_to": [
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/group/yuag",
          "type": "Group",
          "_label": "Yale University Art Gallery"
        },
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/group/feigen",
          "type": "Group",
          "_label": "Richard Feigen Gallery"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "Acquisition",
      "_label": "Acquisition of Nude"
    }
  ]
}

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Payments

A purchase is a common type of acquisition in which money is exchanged for the object. The provenance event consists of the acquisition along with one or more related payments. This typically involves a payment from the seller to the buyer for the agreed upon price, but might include further payments to or from others such as for shared ownership, payment of debts owed, or for services rendered as part of the overall activity.

The Payment activity has equivalent relationships for the actor that the money is transferred from (paid_from), the actor the money is transferred to (paid_to), and the amount of money paid (paid_amount). The amount itself is a MonetaryAmount that has a value (value) and a currency (currency). Each separable monetary amount is modeled as an individual instance of Payment, and thus if the buyer paid a commission to the agent who carried out the purchase, and paid for the object, then there would be two Payments, one from the buyer to the seller and one from the buyer to the agent. Commissions to auction houses or for consignments would use the same pattern.

Diachronic Comparison of Monetary Amounts

The CIDOC-CRM SIG have clarified that the MonetaryAmount refers to the face value of the combination of value and currency. This means that any comparison between MonetaryAmount instances should also take into account the datetimes of resources that reference it, rather than standing alone. Further, it is still unclear if the same MonetaryAmount can be used for all occurences of value and currency, or whether there is something more unique than that.

Example:

Édouard Manet sold his painting, Jeanne, to Antonin Proust in 1883 for 3,000 francs.

{
  "@context": "https://linked.art/ns/v1/linked-art.json",
  "id": "https://linked.art/example/provenance/manet_proust/1",
  "type": "Activity",
  "_label": "Purchase of Spring by Proust",
  "classified_as": [
    {
      "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300055863",
      "type": "Type",
      "_label": "Provenance Activity"
    }
  ],
  "identified_by": [
    {
      "type": "Name",
      "classified_as": [
        {
          "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300404670",
          "type": "Type",
          "_label": "Primary Name"
        }
      ],
      "content": "Purchase of Spring by Proust from Manet"
    }
  ],
  "timespan": {
    "type": "TimeSpan",
    "begin_of_the_begin": "1881-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "end_of_the_end": "1883-12-31T23:59:59Z"
  },
  "part": [
    {
      "type": "Acquisition",
      "_label": "Ownership of Spring to Proust",
      "transferred_title_of": [
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/object/spring",
          "type": "HumanMadeObject",
          "_label": "Spring"
        }
      ],
      "transferred_title_from": [
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/person/manet",
          "type": "Person",
          "_label": "Manet"
        }
      ],
      "transferred_title_to": [
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/person/proust",
          "type": "Person",
          "_label": "Proust"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "Payment",
      "_label": "3000 Francs to Manet",
      "paid_amount": {
        "type": "MonetaryAmount",
        "value": 3000,
        "currency": {
          "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300412016",
          "type": "Currency",
          "_label": "French Francs"
        }
      },
      "paid_from": [
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/person/proust",
          "type": "Person",
          "_label": "Proust"
        }
      ],
      "paid_to": [
        {
          "id": "https://linked.art/example/person/manet",
          "type": "Person",
          "_label": "Manet"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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Payment for Services

Beyond simply paying the previous owner for the object, there are many other reasons why money might change hands that are relevant to describe. For example, it might be known how much commission went to an auction house or for the sale of objects by consignment, particularly if this comes from the stock books or records of the company. Artists might be paid a commission in advance for the production of an object, or agents might be paid a commission for finding and purchasing objects on behalf of the new owner.

Example:

FIXME: Find a real example

{
  "@context": "https://linked.art/ns/v1/linked-art.json",
  "id": "https://linked.art/example/provenance/fixme/1",
  "type": "Activity",
  "_label": "Purchase of Sculpture with Commission",
  "classified_as": [
    {
      "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300055863",
      "type": "Type",
      "_label": "Provenance Activity"
    }
  ],
  "part": [
    {
      "type": "Payment",
      "paid_amount": {
        "type": "MonetaryAmount",
        "value": 900,
        "currency": {
          "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300411994",
          "type": "Currency",
          "_label": "US Dollars"
        }
      },
      "paid_from": [
        {
          "type": "Person",
          "_label": "Buyer"
        }
      ],
      "paid_to": [
        {
          "type": "Person",
          "_label": "Seller"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "Payment",
      "classified_as": [
        {
          "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300393199",
          "type": "Type",
          "_label": "Commission"
        }
      ],
      "paid_amount": {
        "type": "MonetaryAmount",
        "value": 100,
        "currency": {
          "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300411994",
          "type": "Currency",
          "_label": "US Dollars"
        }
      },
      "paid_from": [
        {
          "type": "Person",
          "_label": "Buyer"
        }
      ],
      "paid_to": [
        {
          "type": "Group",
          "_label": "Auction House",
          "classified_as": [
            {
              "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300417515",
              "type": "Type",
              "_label": "Auction House (organization)"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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