Edouard Vuillard
The Visitor
ca. 1900
La Visiteuse
Oil on paper, on canvas
59.5 x 51 cm
Signed upper right: E. Vuillard
Salomon/Cogeval VII-212
Antoine Salomon, Guy Cogeval, Mathias Chivot, Vuillard, Le regard innombrable, Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels, 3 vol., Paris & Milan, 2003.
Provenance
1Bernheim-Jeune Paris • 1900 Acquired from the artist on 28 March 1900 for FF 500, inventory no. 10495, Salomon/Cogeval no. VII-212.
2Paul Rosenberg Paris • 1900 Traded for Salomon/Cogeval no. VI-71 on 28 March 1900, Salomon/Cogeval no. VII-212.
3Gaston Bernheim de Villers Paris • by 1938 Exposition É. Vuillard, Musée des Arts décoratifs (Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan), Paris 1938, no. 81.
4Sam Salz New York Salomon/Cogeval no. VII-212.
5Duncan Phillips (The Phillips Memorial Gallery) Washington D.C. • by 1952 until 1953 The Phillips Collection, A Museum of Modern Art and Its Sources, Catalogue, Washington D.C. 1952, p. 104, fig. 101.
6M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. New York • 1953 Acquired from the above for $ 12.000, Getty Research Institute, Santa Monica (California) Knoedler Gallery Archive, Stock Book 10, p. 102, A5302; AStEGB, Invoice from M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, made out to Emil Bührle, 12 October 1953.
7Emil Bührle Zurich • 12 October 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for $ 19.500, Invoice as above, n. (6), with stamp authorizing payment, initialed by Emil Bührle; Stock Book as above, n. (6).
8Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 117.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Antoine Salomon, Guy Cogeval, Mathias Chivot, Vuillard, Le regard innombrable, Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels, 3 vol., Paris & Milan, 2003.
Exhibitions
1932Essai d'une collection de tableaux modernes (première série), Ecole de 1830, Ecole impressionniste, Ecole moderne Galerie Georges Petit • Paris • 1932 no. 45.
1938Œuvres de Vuillard de 1890 à 1910 Galeries Bernheim-Jeune • Paris • 1938 no. 5.
1938Exposition É. Vuillard Musée des Arts décoratifs (Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan) • Paris • 1938 no. 81.
1949Trends of European Painting 1880–1930 Century Association • New York • 1949 no. 10.
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.269.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 175.
1990The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, Catalogue of the Exhibition in Commemoration of the 100th Birthday of the Collector Emil G. Bührle National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. • Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal • Yokohama Museum of Art • Royal Academy of Arts, London • 1990–91 no. 73.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 117.
2017Chefs-d'oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l'Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 42.
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. 51.
2019La Collection Emil BührleMusée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 35.
References
1946Claude Roger Marx Vuillard et son temps Paris • 1946 • p. 64 (English edition: Vuillard, His Life and Work, London & New York 1946).
1952The Phillips Collection, A Museum of Modern Art and Its Sources, Catalogue Washington D.C. • 1952 • p. 104, fig. 101.
1955Curt Schweicher Vuillard Bern • 1955 • fig. 30.
1968Claude Roger Marx Vuillard, Intérieurs Paris & Lausanne • 1968 • p. 52.
1971Stuart Preston Vuillard New York • 1971 • p. 113 (ill.).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no.106 (ill.; 21986).
1985Patricia Ciaffa The Portraits of Edouard Vuillard (Diss.) • Columbia University, New York • (University Microfilms) Ann Arbor (Michigan) • 1985 • pp. 313–314, fig. 173.
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • pp. 50–51 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
1995Albert Kostenevich Hidden Treasures Revealed, Impressionist and Other Important French Paintings Preserved by The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg New York • 1995 • p. 266. fig. 3 (German edition: Albert Kostenewitsch, Aus der Eremitage, Verschollene Meisterwerke deutscher Privatsammlungen, Munich 1995).
2003Antoine Salomon • Guy Cogeval Vuillard, Le regard innombrable, Catalogue critique des peintures et pastels Paris & Milan • 2003 • vol. 2, no. VII-212 (ill.).
2004Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 3 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2004 • no. 165 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).