Provenance
1Marqués de Alós Barcelona • by 1908 Manuel B. Cossìo, El Greco, Madrid 1908, no. 18.
2Thomas Harris Ltd. London • by 1956 Getty Research Center, Santa Monica (Calfornia), Knoedler Galley Archive, Stock Book 10, p. 156, no. A6100.
3M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. New York • 1956 Co-owned as of 20 September 1956 with the above, the Knoedler Galleries half share being $ 29.919, Stock Book as above, n. (2); AStEGB, Correspondence between M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, and Emil Bührle, 7 February–8 September 1956 regarding the shipment of the painting to Zurich.
4Emil Bührle Zurich • 25 September 1956 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above as an authentic work by El Greco on 25 September 1956 for $ 135.000, Stock Book as above, n. (2); AStEGB, Invoice from M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, made out to Emil Bührle, 10 September 1956; Letter from M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, to Emil Bührle, 17 October 1956, acknowledging receipt of the check.
5Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 141.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Harold E. Wethey, El Greco and His School, 2 vol., Princeton (New Jersey), 1962.
Exhibitions
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. 62.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 80.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 141.
2007El Greco & su taller (Ο Γκρέκο και το εργαστήριο του) N. P. Goulandris Foundation (Museum for Cycladic Art) • Athens • 2007–08, no. 25.
2014El Greco, Painter and Master (El Greco, Arte y oficio) Museo de Santa Cruz • Toledo • 2014 no. 81.
References
1908Manuel B. Cossìo El Greco Madrid • 1908 • no. 18.
1950José Camón Aznar Dominico Greco Madrid • 1950 • vol. 2 • p. 1357, no. 18.
1962Harold E. Wethey El Greco and His School Princeton (New Jersey) • 1962 • vol. 1 • Text and Plates • p. 116; fig. 346 • vol. 2 • Catalogue Raisonné • no. X-33 (with proposed attribution to Jorge Manuel, son of El Greco).
1969Gianna Manzini • Tiziana Frati L'opera completa del Greco Milan • 1969 • no. 77 (21973; 31978; German edition: Das Gesamtwerk von El Greco, Lucerne etc. • Spanish edition: L'obra pictórica completa de el Greco, Barcelona 1970; 21974; 31977; 41982 • French edition: Tout l'œuvre peint de Greco, Paris 1971; 21985 • Greek edition: Ốλο το ζωγραφικό έργο του Γρέκο, Athens 1994).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle / Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle / Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 144 (ill.;21986).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 29 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
2005Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 9 (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. 529 (ill.).