Provenance
1Art trade Paris • 1908/10 AStEGB, Letter from Wilhelm Wartmann [Director of the Kunsthaus] Zurich, to Emil Bührle, 1 July 1948, quoting a letter from Claude Vallotton, Lausanne, to the Kunsthaus in regard to the painting's provenance, according to which the painting had been bought by Claude's father Paul Vallotton ca. 1908/10 from either the Bernheim-Jeune or the Druet Galleries.
2Galerie Paul Vallotton Lausanne • 1908/10–1944 The offer by Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, to the Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft to purchase the painting for CHF 5.500 was discussed among the Collection Committee in the meeting of 10 November 1944. Upon Emil Bührle's proposal to acquire the painting in case the Committee shouldn't wish to do so, the Committee relinquished the purchase, Archive Kunsthaus Zurich, Archive Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft / Kunsthaus Zürich, Sammlungskommission, Minutes of 10 November 1944.
3Emil Bührle Zurich • 23 November 1944 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 5.500, AStEGB, Letter from Maxime Vallotton, Lausanne, to Emil Bührle, 23 November 1944, acknowledging receipt of the above amount, to balance the invoice [now lost] made out on 14 November 1944.
4Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, to be sold for the benefit of the Foundation Zurich • 1960 AStEGB, Charter of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, 24 February 1960, List of Objects to be Sold, Paintings, no. 14.
5Transferred to the permanent collection of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1965 Inv. 171, Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Annual Report 1965, p. 1.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Exhibitions
1953Exposition Albert Marquet Musée Jenisch • Vevey • 1953 no. 27.
1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen • Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 75.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 102.
1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 71.
1963Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, Französische Meister von Delacroix bis Matisse Kunstmuseum Lucerne • 1963 no. 66.
197350 Jahre Kunsthandelsverband der Schweiz, Jubiläumsausstellung mit Werken des 15.–20. Jahrhunderts aus öffentlichem und privatem Besitz Kunsthaus Zurich • 1973 no. 56.
2008Sur les quais, Ports, docks et dockers de Boudin à Marquet Musée d'Art moderne André Malraux, Le Havre • Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux • 2008–09 no. 155 (exhibited in Le Havre only).
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 171.
2013Pissarro dans les ports, Rouen, Dieppe, Le Havre Musée d'Art moderne André Malraux • Le Havre • 2013 no. 25.
2016Albert Marquet, Peintre du temps suspendu Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris • 2016 no. 21.
References
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 115 (ill.; 21986).
1988Guy Ducrey • Marina Ducrey La galérie Paul Vallotton depuis 1913... Lausanne • 1988 • pp. 15, 85 (ill.).
2004Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no.135 (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. 120 (ill.).