Provenance
1Francis Thomas de Grey 7th Earl Cowper Panshanger •Hertford • by 1883 until [d.] 1905 Wilhelm Bode, Studien zur Geschichte der holländischen Malerei, Braunschweig 1883, p. 92, no. 152; Slive, no. 219.
2Lady Katrine Cecilia Cowper Panshanger • Hertford • 1905–[d.] 1913 Widow of the above; Slive no. 219.
3Lady Ethel Desborough Panshanger • Hertford • 1913–1946 Niece of the above; Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Dutch Art Held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London January–March 1929, Oxford & London 1930, p. 50, fig. 21; Slive no. 219; Richard Davenport-Hines, Ettie, The Intimate Life and Dauntless Spirit of Lady Desborough, London 2009.
4Nathan Katz Basel • by 1946 Acting as an intermediary between the above and Emil Bührle, AStEGB, Letter of Emil Bührle to Georges Salles, Paris, 25 April 1953, referring to the Portrait of a Man by Hals bought from Lady Desborough, with Nathan Katz acting as an intermediary; Letter of Nathan Katz, Basel, to Emil Bührle, 1 November 1946, confirming delivery of three paintings: one painting by Frans Hals, Portrait of a Man, two paintings [supposed to be] by Rembrandt, Saskia (now given to Govaert Flinck, Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 159), and Portrait of an Officer.
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 12 December 1946 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, AStEGB, Record concerning a visit of Nathan Katz with Dr. O. Maurer [Secretary General of Oerlikon Bührle & Co.] at the Oerlikon factory on 10 December 1946, stating that Katz required settlement of picture purchases before the end of the year. The total amolunt for the 3 pictures as listed above, n. (4), was CHF 600'000, an additional amount of CHF 210'000, paid at the same time, referred to a Rembrandt «Self Portrait», then attributed to the artist, which Katz had delivered to Bührle earlier; Letter from Nathan Katz, Riehen/Basel, 12 December 1946, confirming the sale of the 4 paintings, including Frans Hals, Portrait of a Man from the Desborough Collection, and the receipt of the amount due. The amount of CHF 810.000 for the lot, not specified in the receipt as above, is corroborated by a list, kept with the files regarding Bührle's taxation 1947, State Archives Zurich, Z 418.789, Taxation 1947 Emil Bührle-Schalk, «Steuerpflichtige Fahrhabe», List of paintings purchased between November 1945 and January 1948, confirming payment of CHF 810.000 to Nathan Katz, Basel, on 11 December 1946; for a detailed account regarding Bührle's acquisitions from Nathan Katz see Lukas Gloor, «Emil Bührle: A Twentieth-Century Modern Art Collection», in The Emil Bührle Collection, History, Full Catalogue, and 70 Masterpieces, Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.), Munich 2021, pp. 100–106.
6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 151.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Seymour Slive, Frans Hals, 3 vol., London & New York, 1970-1974.
Exhibitions
1929Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450–1900 Royal Academy of Arts • London • 1929 no. 109.
1929Dutch Old Masters Art Gallery • Manchester • 1929 no 41.
1950Europäische Kunst 13.–20. Jahrhundert aus Zürcher Sammlungen Kunsthaus Zurich • 1950 p. 21.
1952Drie eeuwen portret in Nederland Rijksmuseum • Amsterdam • 1952 no. 53.
1953Holländer des 17. Jahrhunderts Kunsthaus Zurich • 1953 no. 49.
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. 68.
1987Im Lichte Hollands, Holländische Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts aus den Sammlungen des Fürsten von Liechtenstein und aus Schweizer Besitz Kunstmuseum Basel • 1987 no. 38.
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. 1.
2007Dutch Portraits, The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals (Hollanders in beeld, Portretten uit de Gouden Eeuw; Holländer im Porträt, Meisterwerke von Rembrandt bis Frans Hals) National Gallery, London • Mauritshuis, The Hague • 2007 no. 27 (exhibited in The Hague only).
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 151.
2017Chefs-d'oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l'Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 1.
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. 1.
References
1883Wilhelm Bode Studien zur Geschichte der holländischen Malerei Braunschweig • 1883 • p. 92, no. 152.
1909Ernst Wilhelm Moes Frans Hals, Sa vie et son œuvre Brussels • 1909 • p. 107, no. 161.
1910Cornelis Hofstede de Groot Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts vol. 3 • Esslingen/Neuss & Paris • 1910 • p. 81, no. 283 (English edition: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London 1909, 2Cambridge 1976).
1914Wilhelm v. Bode • M.J. Binder Frans Hals, Sein Leben und seine Werke Berlin • 1914 • vol. 2, no. 278, fig. 183a.
1921Wilhelm Rudolf Valentiner Frans Hals, Des Meisters Gemälde in 318 Abbildungen Stuttgart & Berlin • 1921 • p. 276 (ill.; 21923).
1930Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Dutch Art Held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London January–March 1929 Oxford & London • 1930 • p. 50, fig. 21.
1930Franz Dülberg Frans Hals, Ein Leben und ein Werk Stuttgart • 1930 • p. 216.
1936Frederik Schmidt-Degener «L'image de la Hollande à travers son art» in Gazette des Beaux-Arts(March) • 1936 • fig. 1.
1941Numa S. Trivas The Paintings of Frans Hals New York & London • 1941 • fig. 21, no. 106 (21949; French edition: Les peintures de Frans Hals, Paris 1949, fig. 138, no. 106).
1953Doris Wild «Private Kunstsammlungen in der Schweiz, Die Sammlung Emil Bührle in Zürich» in Das Kunstwerk(7), no. 6 • 1953 • (ill.).
1956François Daulte «Le chef-d'œuvre d'une vie: la collection Buhrle» in Connaissance des Arts (52) • 15 June 1956 • p. 36 (ill.).
1959Denys Sutton «The Bührle Collection» in The Connoisseur (143) • 1959 • p. 146, fig. 1.
1964Manuel Gasser • Willy Rotzler Kunstschätze in der Schweiz, Hundert Meisterwerke der Malerei, der Skulptur und des Kunstgewerbes in öffentlichen, kirchlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Schweiz Zürich • 1964 • no. 52 (ill.).
1970Seymour Slive Frans Hals vol. 1 Text London & New York • 1970 • p. 208; vol. 2 Plates London & New York • 1970 • fig. 336, 339; vol. 3 Catalogue London & New York • 1974 • no. 219.
1972Claus Grimm Frans Hals, Entwicklung, Werkanalyse, Gesamtkatalog Berlin • 1972 • pp. 17, 142, 206, fig. 190, no. 168.
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle / Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle / Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 153 (ill.; 21986).
1974Claus Grimm • E. C. Montagni L'opera completa di Frans Hals Milan • 1974 • no. 214 (ill.; German edition: Das Gesamtwerk des Frans Hals, Lucerne etc. 1974).
1989Seymour Slive etc. Frans Hals (exh. cat.) National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. etc. • 1989 • p. 360, fig. 84b (German edition: Munich 1989).
1989Claus Grimm Frans Hals, Das Gesamtwerk Stuttgart & Zurich • 1989 • fig. 109 (detail), no. 144 (ill.).
1990Claus Grimm «Frans Hals, Die Diskussion um den modernsten der Alten Meister» in Kunstpresse Kunstforum Länderbank (ed.) • April 1990 • p. 7, fig. 1.
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • pp. 14–16 (ill.; English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
1998Christian Bührle «Die Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle in Zürich» in Die Kunst zu sammeln, Schweizer Kunstsammlungen seit 1848; L'art de collectionner, Collections d'art en Suisse depuis 1848; L'arte di collezionare, Collezioni svizzere d'arte dal 1848 Swiss Institute for Art Research (ed.) • Zurich • 1998 • p. 136, fig. 3.
2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 11 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2009Richard Davenport-Hines Ettie, The Intimate Life and Dauntless Spirit of Lady Desborough London • 2009 • pp. 284–285.
2014Seymour Slive Frans Hals (Extensively revised second edition) • London • 2014 • pp. 319–320 (ill.), no. 222 (ill.).
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. 142 (ill.).