Provenance
1Firma D. Katz Dieren • 1934 Schwartz/Bok no. 46.
2Dr. J. H. Smidt van Gelder Arnhem • by 1937/38 until at least 1953 Schilderijen en Teekeningen, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam 1597–1665, (exh. cat.) Museum Boymans, Rotterdam 1937–38, no. 7; 17e eeuwse meesters uit Gelders bezit, (exh. cat.) Gemeentemuseum Arnhem 1953, no. 58, annotated copy of the catalogue in the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), The Hague, with notes by Ary Bob de Vries, then (1953) director of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, identifying «dr. Smidt van Gelder, Arnhem» as the name behind the «particulier bezit» indicated in the catalogue (a copy of the annotated catalogue in the RKD was kindly provided by Quentin Buvelot, Senior Curator at the Mauritshuis, The Hague, January 2011).
3Dr. Fritz Nathan Zurich • by 1955 AStEGB, Entry Book II, Entry 28 August 1955.
4Emil Bührle Zurich • 31 August 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 150'000, AStEGB, Letter from Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, to Emil Bührle, 31 August 1955, confirming payment of this amount to Dr. Fritz Nathan for «P. Saenredam ex Collection Dr. Schmidt-van Geldern».
5Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 164.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Gary Schwartz, Marten Jan Bok, Pieter Saenredam, De schilder in zijn tijd, Maarssen & The Hague, 1989.
Exhibitions
1937Schilderijen en Teekeningen, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam 1597–1665 Museum Boymans • Rotterdam • 1937–38 no. 7.
195317e eeuwse meesters uit Gelders bezit Gemeentemuseum Arnhem • 1953 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. 77.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 144.
1961Pieter Jansz. Saenredam Centraal Museum • Utrecht • 1961 no. 46.
1987Im Lichte Hollands, Holländische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts aus den Sammlungen des Fürsten von Liechtenstein und aus Schweizer Besitz Kunstmuseum Basel • 1987 no. 88.
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. 3.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 164.
2017Die Geburt des Kunstmarktes, Rembrandt, Ruisdael, van Goyen und die Künstler des Goldenen Zeitalters Bucerius Kunst Forum • Hamburg • 2017–18 no. 47.
References
1935H. P. Bremmer (ed.) Beeldende Kunst(22) • 1935/36 • 4, no. 26 (ill.).
1935P. T. A. Swillens Pieter Janszoon Saenredam, Schilder van Haarlem, 1597–1665 Amsterdam • 1935 • no. 96, fig. 87 (2Soest 1970).
1937P. T. A. Swillens «Pieter Saenredam, Eenige nadere bijzonderheden over zijn leven en werken» in Historia (3) • 1937 • p. 331 (ill. right).
1961P. T. A. Swillens • J. Q. van Regteren Altena Catalogue raisonné of the Works by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, published on the occasion of the exhibition Pieter Jansz. Saenredam Centraal Museum • Utrecht • 1961 • no. 46, fig. 47 (Dutch edition: Catalogue raisonné van de werken van Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, uitgewen ter gelegenheid van de tentoonstelliing Pieter Jansz. Saenredam).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 165 (ill.; 21986).
1975Walter A. Liedtke «The New Church in Haarlem Series, Saenredam's Skechting Style in Relation to Perspective» in Simiolus (8) • 1975/76 • p. 152, n. 16.
1983Reflets du siècle d'or, Tableaux hollandais du dix-septième siècle (exh. cat.) • Fondation Custodia (Institut Néerlandais) • Paris • 1983 • p. 121.
1989Gary Schwartz • Marten Jan Bok Pieter Saenredam, De schilder in zijn tijd Maarssen & The Hague • 1989 • no. 46, fig. 135 (English edition: Pieter Saenredam, The Painter and His Time, Biography, Illustrations and Catalogue of All Works, Summaries of All Documents, 1990).
1991Perspectives, Saenredam and the Architectural Painters of the 17th Century (exh. cat.) • Museum Boymans-van Beuningen • Rotterdam • 1991 • p. 109, entry for cat. no. 15.
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 20 (ill.; English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
2002Quentin Buvelot • Hans Buijs A Choice Collection, Seventeenth Century Dutch Paintings from the Frits Lugt Collection (exh.cat.) • Mauritshuis • The Hague • 2002 • entry for cat. no. 28, fig. 28b.
2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 22 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2007Stephen Farthing 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die London • 2007 • fig. 96.
2009James Simpson Under the Hammer, Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition Oxford & New York • 2009 • fig. 36.
2015Lukas Gloor «Holländische Kunst in Zürich» in Ein goldenes Zeitalter, Holländische und flämische Gemälde aus einer privaten Sammlung (exh.cat.) • Kunsthaus Zurich • 2015 • p. 18, fig. c.