Provenance
1Private Collection Ravensburg AStEGB, Inventory Card The Virgin of Mercy.
2Dr. Benno Griebert Meersburg • by 1953 until 1954 AStEGB, Entry Book II, 23 May 1953.
3Emil Bührle Zurich • 10 July 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for ca. CHF 40.000, AStEGB, Handwritten note from Emil Bührle, attached to 2 receipts signed by Dr. Benno Griebert regarding purchase of a painting, dated 14 January 1954 and 24 June 1954. On this note Emil Bührle records that the present sculpture enters his possession against a credit he has given Griebert, plus interests; AStEGB, Loan Contract between Emil Bührle, Zurich, and Dr. B. Griebert, Meersburg, confirming loan of CHF 39.500 from the former to the latter; Internal Note of 5 July 1954, Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon Bührle & Co., signed by Bührle, confirming that the above loan had been settled by acquisition. The exact date of the transaction in Entry Book as above, n. (2), and Entry Book II, 1 July 1953, and Inventory Card as above, n. (1), with the final date of the purchase.
4Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. P14
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Exhibitions
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. P14.
2016Heiliger Besuch, Gotische Skulpturen der Sammlung E.G. Bührle und Madonnenbilder von Annelies Štrba Museum zu Allerheiligen • Schaffhausen • 2016 no. 1.
2017Luther! 95 Schätze – 95 Menschen Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt (Augusteum) • Wittenberg • 2017 no. 65.
2019Verehrt, Geliebt, Vergessen, Maria zwischen den Konfessionen Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt (Augusteum) • Wittenberg • 2019 no. 28.
2020Nonnen, Starke Frauen im MittelalterSchweizerisches Nationalmuseum • Zürich • 2020 no. 34.
References
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 187 (ill.;21986).
2005Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. S12 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2021Lukas Gloor «The Holdings of the Emil Bührle Collection: Illustrated List of All 633 Purchases» in The Emil Bührle Collection: History, Full Catalogue and 70 Masterpieces Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.) • Munich • 2021 • no. 602 (ill.).