Provenance
1Mme E. Gautier Paris Dedication on the painting, lower left; the dedication's addressee was most probably Ernesta Grisi, companion from 1844 to 1866 of the critic Théophile Gautier whose positive review of the two large allegories of «Concordia» (i.e. Peace) and «War» exhibited in the 1861 Salon was instrumental in drawing the attention of the French authorities towards Puvis' work. The acquisition of these works by the French government marked the beginning of Puvis' successful career as a painter of murals.
2Eugene O. M. Linton-Hanson Copenhague Brown Price no. 102.
3Dikran Kélékian New York • by 1922 until [d.] 1951 Illustrated Catalogue of the Notable Collection of Modern French Pictures and a Group of the Works of the Noted American Artist Arthur B. Davies, Formed by and Belonging to the Widely Known Antiquarian Dikran Kahn Kélékian of Paris and New York, American Art Association, New York (30–31 January 1922), no. 143; Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of the Moderns, (sale cat.) Rains Gallery, New York (18 January 1935).
4Victor D. Spark New York • by 1953 Advertisement of Victor D. Spark, New York, illustrating Puvis de Chavannes, Concordia, in Art Quarterly (16) 1953, p. 170. The ownership of Victor D. Spark, in 1953, is further corroborated by the fact that the painting was offered to Bührle (by way of a photography) already in April 1953, for $ 2.800, AStEGB, Entry Book II, 18 April 1953. The listing of «Downtown Gallery» as an owner of the painting (previous to Spark) by Brown Price no. 102 is more likely to refer to an exhibition of the painting in the popular New York gallery.
5M. H. Drey Ltd. London • by 1956 Kauffmann Inventory, Journal 4, p. 26, no. 1547, indicating a shared ownership in the painting as of 11 September 1956.
6Dr. Arthur Kauffmann London • 1956 Half share acquired from the above, Journal as above, n. (5).
7Emil Bührle Zürich • 1 November 1956 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for £ 3.000, Journal as above, n. (5); AStEGB, Entry Book II, 1 November 1956.
8Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 81.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Aimée Brown Price, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 2 vol., New Haven (Connecticut) & London, 2010.
Exhibitions
1921Exhibition of Paintings by Modern French Masters Museum of Art • Brooklyn (New York) • 1921 no. 179.
1934Exhibition of French Painting from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Days California Palace of the Legion of Honor • San Francisco • 1934 no. 134.
1954The Two Sides of the Medal, French Painting from Gérôme to Gauguin Institute of Arts • Detroit • 1954 no. 93.
1954Selections from a Dealer's Choice, 15th through 20th Centuries James Graham & Sons • New York • 1954 no. 13.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 81.
2017Gefeiert & verspottet, Französische Malerei 1820–1880 Kunsthaus Zurich • 2017–18 no. 91.
2018Bührle Collection: Impressionist Masterpieces from the E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich (Switzerland) National Art Center, Tokyo • Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka • Nagoya City Art Museum • 2018 no. 18.
References
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 81 (ill.; 21986).
1976Puvis de Chavannes 1824–1898 (exh. cat.) • National Gallery of Canada • Ottawa • 1976–77 • p. 64 (entry for cat. no. 36–53; French edition: Grand Palais, Paris, p. 66).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 46 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
2010Aimée Brown Price Pierre Puvis de Chavannes vol. 2 A Catalogue Raisonné of the Painted Work London & New Haven • 2010 • no. 102 (ill. without frame).
2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 88 (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. 535 (ill.).