Provenance
1J. Carpenter Garnier Tookesbury Hall • Hampshire Wilhelm Bode, Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, The Complete Work of Rembrandt, vol. 3, Paris 1899, no. 156.
2Sir Charles J. Robinson London Bode as above, n. (1).
3Charles Sedelmeyer Paris Lawrie & Co. London M. Knoedler & Co. Inc. New York• by 1899 Rembrandt, Collection des œuvres réunis à l'occasion de l'inauguration de S. M. la Reine Wilhelmina, (exh. cat.) Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1898, no. 38; Illustrated Catalogue of the Fifth Series of 100 Paintings by Old Masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French, and English Schools, Being a Portion of the Sedelmeyer Gallery which Contains about 1'500 Original Pictures by Ancient and Modern Artists, Paris 1899, no. 39 (ill.); Collecting in the Guilded Age, Art Patronage in Pittsburgh, 1890–1910, (exh. cat.) Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh 1997, p. 127.
4Alexander M. Byers Pittsburgh • 1899 until [d.] 1900 Acquired from the latter in March 1899, exh. cat. as above, pp. 127, 368, n. 53, fig. 59 (the painting hanging in the library of the Byers residence in Pittsburgh).
5The estate of A. M. Byers 1900 until at least 1932 Exhibition of Paintings by Old Masters from Pittsburgh Collections, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh 1925, no. 59; An Exhibition of the Alexander M. Byers Collection of Paintings, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh 1932; Collecting in the Guilded Age, exh. cat. as above n. (3), p. 173.
6Mr. H. E. ten Cate Almelo • by 1940 Masterpieces from the Two World's Fairs, (exh. cat. ) Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo (Ohio) 1940, no. 32.
7Firma D. Katz DierenSammlung Emil G. Bührle (exh. cat.) Kunsthaus Zurich 1958, no. 69.
8Nathan Katz Basel •by 1946 AStEGB, Letter from Nathan Katz, Basel, to Emil Bührle, Zürich, 1 November 1946, confirming delivery of three paintings: two paintings [supposed to be] by Rembrandt, Saskia (the present painting) and Portrait of an Officer, and one painting by Frans Hals, Portrait of a Man (Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 151).
9Emil Bührle Zurich • 12 December 1946 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, AStEGB, Record concerning a visit of Nathan Katz with Dr. O. Maurer [Secretary General of Oerlikon Bührle & Co.] at the Oerlikon factory on 10 December 1946, stating that Katz required settlement for picture purchases before the end of the year. The total amount for the 3 pictures as listed above, n. (8), was CHF 600'000, an additional amount of CHF 210'000, paid at the same time, referred to a Rembrandt «Self Portrait», then attributed to the artist, which Katz had delivered to Bührle earlier; Letter from Nathan Katz, Riehen/Basel, 12 December 1946, confirming the sale of the 4 paintings, including, Rembrandt, Saskia, from the Byers Collection, Pittsburgh, and the receipt of the amount due. The amount of CHF 810'000 for the lot, not specified in the receipt as above, is corroborated by a list, kept with the files regarding Bührle's taxation 1947, Canton of Zurich, State Archives, Zurich, Z 418.789, Taxation 1947 Emil Bührle-Schalk, «Steuerpflichtige Fahrhabe», List of paintings purchased between November 1945 and January 1948, confirming payment of CHF 810'000 to Nathan Katz, Basel, on 11 December 1946; for a detailed account regarding Bührle's acquisitions from Nathan Katz see Lukas Gloor, «Emil Bührle: A Twentieth-Century Modern Art Collection», in The Emil Bührle Collection, History, Full Catalogue, and 70 Masterpieces, Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.), Munich 2021, pp. 100–106.
10Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 159.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Exhibitions
1898Rembrandt, Collection des œuvres réunis à l'occasion de l'inauguration de S. M. la Reine Wilhelmina Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam • 1898 no. 38.
1925Exhibition of Paintings by Old Masters from Pittsburgh Collections Carnegie Institute • Pittsburgh • 1925 no. 59.
1932An Exhibition of the Alexander M. Byers Collection of Paintings Carnegie Institute • Pittsburgh • 1932
1935Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Etchings by Rembrandt and His Circle Art Institute • Chicago • 1935–36
1939Masterpieces of Art, European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300–1800 New York World's Fair • New York • 1939 no. 298.
1940Masterpieces from the Two World's Fairs Toledo Museum of Art • Toledo (Ohio) • 1940 no. 32.
1948Rembrandt-Ausstellung zu Ehren Ihrer Majestät Königin Wilhelmine der Niederlande Galerie Katz • Basel • 1948 no. 16.
1950Europäische Kunst 13.–20. Jahrhundert aus Zürcher Sammlungen Kunsthaus Zurich • 1950 p. 21.
1953Holländer des 17. Jahrhunderts Kunsthaus Zurich • 1953 no. 107 (with wrong description).
1955Alte Meister aus der Sammlung E. Bührle, Zürich Jegenstorf Castle • Jegenstorf (Bern) • 1955 no. 16.
1958Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, Festschrift zu Ehren von Emil G. Bührle zur Eröffnung des Kunsthaus-Neubaus und Katalog der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle Kunsthaus Zurich • 1958 no. 69.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 126.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 159.
2020Rembrandts Orient, Westöstliche Begegnung in der niederländischen Kunst des 17. JahrhundertsMuseum Barberini • Potsdam • Kunstmuseum Basel • 2020–21 no. 3.
References
1899Wilhelm Bode • Cornelis Hofstede de Groot The Complete Work of Rembrandt vol. 3 • Paris • 1899 • no. 156 (ill.).
1899Illustrated Catalogue of the Fifth Series of 100 Paintings by Old Masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French, and English Schools, Being a Portion of the Sedelmeyer Gallery which Contains about 1'500 Original Pictures by Ancient and Modern Artists Paris • 1899 • no. 39 (ill.).
1905Ernst Wilhelm Moes Iconographia Batava, Beredeneerde lijst van geschilderde en gebeeldhouwde portretten van Noord-Nederlanders in vorige eeuwen vol. 2 • Amsterdam • 1905 • p. 494, no. 8168/15.
1909Adolf Rosenberg Rembrandt Stuttgart • 21906 • p. 105 (ill.; 3Wilhelm Rudolf Valentiner [ed.], Stuttgart 1909, p. 132 [ill.]).
1915Cornelis Hofstede de Groot Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts vol. 6 • Esslingen/Neuss & Paris • 1915 • p. 262, no. 614 (English edition: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London 1909, 2Cambridge 1976).
1923John C. van Dyke Rembrandt and His School, A Critical Study of the Master and His Pupils with a New Assignment of Their Pictures New York • 1923 • p. 95, no. 76, fig. 20.
1923David Storrar Meldrum Rembrandt's Paintings, With an Essay on His Life and Work London & New York • 1923 • p. 192, fig. 173.
1937Abraham Bredius Rembrandt, Gemälde Vienna • 1935 • no. 106 (ill.; Dutch edition: Rembrandt Schilderijen, Utrecht & Vienna 1935 • English edition: The Paintings of Rembrandt, Vienna & London 1937).
1955Max Huggler «Alte Meister aus der Sammlung Bührle im Schloss Jegenstorf» in Schweizer Monatshefte (35) • 1955 • p. 267.
1966Kurt Bauch Rembrandt-Gemälde Berlin • 1966 • fig. 495.
1969Abraham Bredius • Horst Gerson (ed.) Rembrandt The Complete Edition of the Paintings London • 1969 • p. 95 (ill., left), no. 106.
1969Giovanni Arpino • Paolo Lecaldano L'opera pittorica completa di Rembrandt Milan • 1969 • p. 133 (ill.; 21973; English edition: Paolo Lecaldano, Gregory Martin, The Complete Paintings of Rembrandt, New York 1969 • German edition: Das gemalte Gesamtwerk von Rembrandt, Lucerne etc. 1969 • French edition: Jacques Foucart, Paolo Lecaldano, Tout l'œuvre peint de Rembrandt, Paris 1971 • Spanish edition: La obra pictórica completa de Rembrandt, Barcelona 1971; 21983).
1986Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle / Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle / Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 163 (ill.;21986).
1994Lynn H. Nicholas, The Rape of Europa, The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War New York • 1994 • p. 427.
1995Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 19 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
1997Collecting in the Guilded Age, Art Patronage in Pittsburgh, 1891–1910 (exh. cat.) Frick Art & Historical Center • Pittsburgh • 1997 • pp. 127, 173, 368, n. 53, fig. 59 (the painting hanging in the library of the Byers residence in Pittsburgh).
2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol.1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 6 (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. 141 (ill.).