Researching the ownership of an artwork, and how and where it changed hands can help museums illuminate objects, artists, and cultures, and enable a museum to ...

The history of ownership, or provenance, of works of art has always been an integral part of scholarship at the Saint Louis Art Museum.

The study of provenance is a traditional part of art historical research, as an object's chain of ownership can inform a scholarly understanding of the work ...

This page gives information about NCMA provenance standards, brief descriptions of provenance research and issues specific to different museum collections, ...