The painting was looted from Baron Philippe de Rothschild in 1940 and memorialized in an iconic photograph.
Baron Philippe de Rothschild was not the kind of man who acknowledged limitations. Mouton had been in his family for three generations, but the banking family basically ignored its provincial estate.
In October 2023, several dedicated auctions were held in New York to sell mostly pieces acquired by Baron James Mayer de ...
Eric de Rothschild loved visiting his family's Bordeaux estate with friends when he was in his twenties. They had fun and they drank a lot of wine—not bad, when the winery is first-growth Château ...
One of the family members, Baron Éric de Rothschild, who has been in charge of the First Growth Bordeaux, Château Lafite Rothschild, since 1974, became fascinated with the vineyards of Chile in ...