Henri Fantin-Latour
Roses and Lilies in a Vase
1864
Roses et lis dans un vase
Oil on canvas
57 x 42.5 cm
Signed & dated lower left: Fantin 1864
Fantin-Latour 242
Victoria Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l’œuvre complet (1849-1904) de Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1911 (reprint Amsterdam & New York, 1969 ; Paris, 2000).
Provenance
1James McNeill Whistler London Received as a gift from the artist, Fantin-Latour no. 242.
2J. Russell Buckler LondonCatalogue of the Collection of Choice Modern Pictures and Water Colour Drawings and a Few Works by Old Masters, Collection of Pictures and Drawings of the late J. Russell Buckler, (sale cat.) Christie's, London (10 March 1906), no. 58 (sold for 205 guineas), Fantin-Latour no. 242.
3Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London • by 1952 AStEGB, Entry Book I, 9 October 1952.
4Emil Bührle Zurich • 10 November 1952 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, Entry Book as above, n. (3), with reference to the date of purchase; Letter from F. K. Lloyd, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, to Emil Bührle, 14 November 1952, accompanying the (lost) invoice for the painting.
5Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 43.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Victoria Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l’œuvre complet (1849-1904) de Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1911 (reprint Amsterdam & New York, 1969 ; Paris, 2000).
Exhibitions
1952French Masters of the XIXth and XXth Centuries, Eighth Series Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. • London • 1952 no. 14.
1955Europäische Meister 1790–1910 Kunstmuseum Winterthur • 1955 no. 77.
2007Fantin-Latour, De la réalité au rêve Fondation de l'Hermitage • Lausanne • 2007 no. 18.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 43.
References
1911Victoria Fantin-Latour Catalogue de l'œuvre complet (1849–1904) de Fantin-Latour Paris • 1911 • no. 242 (2Amsterdam 1969; 3Paris 2000).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 38 (ill.; 21986).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 25 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 62 (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. 265 (ill.).