Provenance
1Hippolyte-François Devillers Rome & Vesoul • 1811 until [d.] 1837 Commissioned from the artist, Portraits by Ingres, Image of an Epoch, (exh. cat.) National Gallery, London etc. 1999/2000, no. 31.
2The descendants of Hippolyte-François Devillers until at least 1842 Exh. cat. as above, n. (1).
3Monsieur Lang Exh. cat. as above, n. (1).
4Bernheim-Jeune Paris • from 1911 until at least 1935 AStEGB, Letter from Jean Dauberville, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, to Emil Bührle, 17 May 1955; Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts, (exh. cat.) Kunsthaus Zurich 1917, no. 116; Quelques tableaux d'Ingres à Gauguin, (exh. cat.) Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris 1935, no. 11.
5Gaston Bernheim de Villers Paris • by 1939 until [d.] 1953 Son of Alexandre Bernheim-Jeune and brother of Joseph (Josse) Bernheim-Jeune; the painting had been included in a travelling exhibition of French art throughout South America and the USA from 1939 to 1942. The exhibition went on to the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., where the paintings were seized for safe-keeping and remained on the premises until the end of the war.
6The estate of Gaston Bernheim de Villers1953–1955 Acting for the heirs was Jean Dauberville, who approached Emil Bührle for the first time on behalf of his aunt, Mme G. Bernheim de Villers, Monte-Carlo, offering a Renoir from her collection, AStEGB, Correspondence between Jean Dauberville, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, and Emil Bührle, 21 June 1954–18 February 1955.
7Dr. Fritz Nathan Zurich • 1955 AStEGB, Receipted invoice from Dr. Fritz Nathan, Zurich, to Emil Bührle, 3 May 1955.
8Emil Bührle Zurich • 3 May 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the heirs of Gaston Bernheim de Villers, through Dr. Fritz Nathan, Zurich, for $ 163.000, Receipted invoice as above, n. (7), signed by Nathan on behalf of the executors of the estate. An intermediary role was played by the dealer Sam Salz, New York, who is mentioned by Dr. Peter Nathan, Zurich, in a letter to Douglas Cooper, Château de Castille, Argilliers, 2 June 1961, listing the paintings sold to Emil Bührle by Dr. Fritz and Dr. Peter Nathan, Getty Research Institute, Santa Monica (California), Cooper Archive, Box 46/2.
9Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 137.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Georges Wildenstein, Ingres, Londres & New York, 1954.
Exhibitions
1911Exposition Ingres […] organisée au profit du Musée Ingres Galerie Georges Petit • Paris • 1911 no. 17.
1917Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts Kunsthaus Zurich • 1917 no. 116.
1921Exposition Ingres Hôtel de la Chambre syndicale de la curiosité et des beaux-arts • Paris • 1921 no. 16.
1923L’Art français au service de la science française Hôtel de la Chambre syndicale de la curiosité et des beaux-arts • Paris • 1923 no. 2364.
1928Udstillingen af fransk malerkunst fra den første halvdel af det 19. aarhundrede Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek • Copenhagen • 1928 no. 91.
1928Fransk måleri från David till Courbet Nationalmuseum • Stockholm • 1928 no. 91.
1928Fransk malerkunst fra David til Courbet Nasjonalgalleriet • Oslo • 1928 no. 91.
1934Cent ans de portrait français Galerie Bernheim-Jeune • Paris • 1934 no. 46.
1934Les artistes français à Rome de Poussin à Renoir Musée d'art décoratif • Paris • 1934 no. 214.
1935Quelques tableaux d'Ingres à Gauguin Galerie Bernheim-Jeune • Paris • 1935 no. 11.
1938Honderd Jaar Fransche Kunst Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam • 1938 no. 134 (?).
1939Siete siglos de pintura francesa Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes • Buenos Aires • 1939 no. 74.
1939La pintura francesa de David a nuestros dias Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes • Montevideo • 1939 no. 56.
1940Exposição de pintura francesa, seculos XIX e XX Museu Nacional de Belas Artes • Rio de Janeiro • 1940 no. 54.
1940The Painting of France since the Revolution M. H. de Young Memorial Museum • San Francisco • 1940–41 no. 58.
1941Masterpieces of French Art Lent by the Museums and Collectors of France Art Institute • Chicago • 1941 no. 84.
1941The Painting of France since the French Revolution Los Angeles County Museum • Los Angeles • 1941 no. 70.
1941Masterpieces of French Painting, Art Museum Portland (Oregon) • 1941 no. 57.
1941The Painting of France since the French Revolution M. H. de Young Memorial Museum • San Francisco • 1941–42 no. 58.
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. 102.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 87.
1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 1.
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. 12.
1999Portraits by Ingres, Image of an Epoch National Gallery, London • National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York • 1999–2000 no. 31 (exhibited in London only).
2003Maestà di Roma, D'Ingres à Degas, Les artistes français à Rome Villa Medici • Rome • 2003 no. 32.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 137.
2017Gefeiert & verspottet, Französische Malerei 1820–1880 Kunsthaus Zurich 2017–18 no. 66.
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. 2.
References
1911Henry Lapauze Ingres, Sa vie & son œuve (1780–1867), D'après des documents inédits Paris • 1911 • pp. 111 (ill.), 114, 157, 573.
1914Art français, art décoratif contemporain 1800–1885 (catalogue of an exhibition that never took place, organized by Élisabeth, comtesse Greffulhe) • Grosvenor House • London • 1914 • no. 30.
1919L'Art Moderne et quelques aspects de l'art d'autrefois, Cent-soixante-treize planches d'après la collection privée de MM. J. & G. Bernheim-Jeune Paris • 1919 • vol. 1, fig. 70.
1921Henry Lapauze «La nouvelle leçon de Ingres» in La Renaissance de l'art français et des industries de luxe (May) • 1921 • p. 192 (ill.).
1924Marc Elder A Giverny, Chez Claude Monet Paris • 1924 • p. 45.
1924Lili Fröhlich-Blum Ingres, Sein Leben und sein Stil, Vienna & Leipzig • 1924 • p. 8., fig. 18 (English edition: Ingres, His Life and Art, London 1926).
1928Louis Hourticq Ingres, L'Œuvre du maître Paris • 1928 • p. 28 (ill.).
1943Maurice Malingue Ingres Monaco • 1943 • p. 34 (ill.).
1954Georges Wildenstein Ingres London • 1954 • no. 79, fig. 41 (21956).
1957Arnold Kübler «Die Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle» in: Du (17) • 1957 • p. 44 (ill.).
1958Madeleine Delpierre «Les Costumes de cour et les uniformes civils du Premier Empire» in Bulletin du Musée Carnavalet (November) • 1958 • pp. 2–23.
1958Doris Wild «Zur Ausstellung der Sammlung Bührle» in Alte und neue Kunst (9) • 1958 • p. 17, fig. 8
1961Dr. Fritz Nathan und Dr. Peter Nathan, 25 Jahre 1936–1961 Winterthur • 1961 • pp. 14–15 (ill.).
1964Hans Naef • Ch.-H. Lerch «Ingres et M. Devillers» in Bulletin du Musée Ingres (September) • 1964 • pp. 5–16 (ill.).
1971Emilio Radius • Ettore Camesasca L'opera completa di Ingres Milan • 1968 • no. 65 (ill.; 21981; German edition: Das gemalte Gesamtwerk von Ingres, Lucerne etc. 1968 • French edition: Daniel Ternois, Ettore Camesasca, Tout l'œuvre peint de Ingres, Paris 1971; 21984 • Spanish edition: La obra pictórica completa de Ingres, Barcelona 1972; 21984).
1972Dr. Fritz Nathan und Dr. Peter Nathan, 1922–1972 Zurich • 1972 • no. 27 (ill.).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle / Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle / Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 5 (ill.; 21986).
1977Hans Naef Die Bildniszeichnungen von J.-A.-D. Ingres vol. 1 • Zurich • 1977 • p. 255–261 (ill.).
1980Daniel Ternois Ingres Paris • 1980 • p. 47, 58, fig. p. 74.
1993Amaury-Duval L'Atelier d'Ingres Daniel Ternois (ed.) • Paris • 1993 • p. 46.
1993Susan Alyson Stein «Chronology» in Splendid Legacy, The Havemeyer Collection (exh. cat.) Metropolitan Museum of Art • New York • 1993 • p. 258.
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • pp. 22–23 (ill.; English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
1995Georges Vigne Ingres Paris • 1995 • p. 82 (English edition: New York).
1997The Private Collection of Edgar Degas (exh. cat.) Metropolitan Museum of Art • New York • 1997 • p. 272, fig. 354.
2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 68 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2018Louvre, L'art du portrait dans les collections du Louvre (exh. cat.) National Art Center, Tokyo • Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts • 2018–19 • p. 97, fig. 2.
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. 441 (ill.).