Provenance
1Henri Heilbronner Lucerne • by 1955 AStEGB, Letter from Henri Heilbronner, Lucerne, to Emil Bührle, 25 August 1955, recommending the purchase of the sculpture and offering a price reduction.
2Emil Bührle Zurich • 7 September 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, for CHF 15.000, AStEGB, Invoice from Henri Heilbronner, Lucerne, made out to Emil Bührle, 31 August 1955; Letter from Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, to Emil Bührle, 7 September 1955, confirming transfer of this amount.
3Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. P17.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Exhibitions
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. 37.
2016Heiliger Besuch, Gotische Skulpturen der Sammlung E.G. Bührle und Madonnenbilder von Annelies Štrba Museum zu Allerheiligen • Schaffhausen • 2016 no. 7.
2016Von Dürer bis van Gogh, Sammlung Bührle trifft Wallraf Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud • Cologne • 2016–17 no. 13.
References
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 182 (ill.;21986).
2005Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. S17 (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. 624 (ill.).