Alexandrine de Rothschild

Alexandrine was a patron of they arts and collected work from various European artists. After her father's death in 1934 Alexandrine inherited the Château Boulogne-Billancourt and maintained the property grounds. A year after Paris fell to Nazi Germany in 1941 and the Château was seized by the Nazis and confiscated her private art collection.

In November 2021, Meules de blé^[2] (1888), was sold at Christie's for $35 million after a three party restitution agreement involving the heirs of Max Meirowsky, Alexandrine de Rothschild, and representatives for Cox's estate.^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}

In order to avoid further Nazi persecution Alexandrine fled to Switzerland. She resided at St. Moritz at the time of her death. Alexandrine was 80 when she died on March 15, 1965, in Baden, Switzerland. She posthumously funded the Beni Israel Trust to Israel.^[1]