Provenance
1Charles Delbecque, member of the «Chambre des Représentants» Brussels • by 1886 Exposition de tableaux de maîtres anciens, (exh. cat.)Académie Royale de Belgique, Brussels 1886, no. 201.
2Eduard August Veltman Bloemendaal • by 1935 until ca. 1951 Cinq siècles d'art, (exh. cat.) Exposition universelle et internationale, Brussels 1935, no. 766; Le paysage hollandais au XVIIe siècle, (exh. cat.) Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris 1950, no. 80; J. F. Heijlbroek, Frits Lugt, 1884–1970, Living for Art, A Biography, Fondation Custodia (ed.), Paris 2012, p. 205 et al., regarding the Veltman collection, to which Frits Lugt acted as an advisor.
3Otto Wertheimer Basel • ca. 1951–1952 Acquired from the above, Heijlbroek, as above, n. (2), pp. 337–338, regarding the purchase of most of the Veltman collection by Wertheimer.
4M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. New York • 1952–1954 Acquired from the above on 29 February 1952, Getty Research Institute, Santa Monica (California) Knoedler Gallery Archive, Stock Book 10, p. 74, no. 4853; AStEGB, Invoice from M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, made out to Emil Bührle, 26 May 1954, for two paintings, Rembrandt, «Still Life with Dead Game» (Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, inv. 158, and Ruysdael, «Au Bord du Fleuve».
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 27 May 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for a total of $ 125.000 for the two paintings, Invoice as above, n. (3), and AStEGB, Letter from Charles R. Henschel [Head of M. Knoedler & Co., Inc.], New York, to Emil Bührle, 27 May 1954, acknowledging receipt of the check; Stock Book as above, n. (3).
6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 163.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Wolfgang Stechow, Salomon van Ruysdael, Eine Einführung in seine Kunst mit kritischem Katalog der Gemälde, Berlin, 1975.
Exhibitions
1886Exposition de tableaux de maîtres anciens Académie Royale de Belgique • Brussels • 1886 no. 201.
1926Tentoonstelling Oude Kunst in Particulier Bezit te Haarlem Frans Hals Museum • Haarlem • 1926–27 no. 15.
1935Cinq siècles d'art Exposition universelle et internationale • Brussels • 1935 no. 766.
1936Tentoostelling van Werken door Salomon van Ruysdael Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker N. V. • Amsterdam • 1936 no. 20.
1950Le paysage hollandais au XVIIe siècle Orangerie des Tuileries • Paris • 1950 no. 80.
1955Alte Meister aus der Sammlung E. Bührle, Zürich Jegenstorf Castle • Jegenstorf (Bern) • 1955, no. 21.
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. 74.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 142.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 163.
References
1938Wolfgang Stechow Salomon van Ruysdael, Eine Einführung in seine Kunst mit kritischem Katalog der Gemälde Berlin • 1938 • no. 512 (21975).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 161 (ill.;21986).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 17 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
1994Peter C. Sutton • John Lougham The Golden Age of Dutch Landscape Painting (exh. cat.) • Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza • Madrid • 1994 • p. 216 (n. 2; Spanish edition: El Siglo de Oro del Paisaje Holandés).
2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 21 (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. 384 (ill.).