Provenance
1Théodore Willy Paul Leuner & Liselotte Leuner Chaumercenne • Haut-Saône • by 1952 Jean-Petit-Matile, «Découverte d'un chef- d'œuvre de Francesco Guardi», in Vie, Art, Cité (15/3) 1952, p. 36–37 (ill.), with thanks to Liselotte Leuner for having provided the opportunity to publish the painting; Liselotte was the wife of Théodore Willy Paul Leuner, who is remembered by older inhabitants of Chaumercenne as having been a painting restorer, Information kindly given to Foundation E.G Bührle Collection by Alain Thiebaut, Chaumercenne, E-Mail-Correspondence 26–28 January 2021.
2Art trade Paris • 1952 Tiepolo et Guardi, Galerie Cailleux, Paris 1952, not in catalogue; Giuseppe Fiocco, «Il problema di Francesco Guardi», in Arte Veneta (6) 1952, p. 118, fig. 125**.
3Dr. Hans Wendland Paris AStEGB, Correspondence between H. F. Fankhauser, Basel, acting on behalf of his brother-in-law, Dr. Hans Wendland, and Emil Bührle or Peter Dietschi [curator of the Bührle collection], 4 September–16 October 1956.
4Emil Bührle Zurich • 10 October 1956 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired through the medium of H. F. Fankhauser, Basel, from the above for CHF 62.000, Invoice from H. F. Fankhauser, Basel, made out to Emil Bührle, 4 September 1956; Letter from H. F. Fankhauser, Basel, to Emil Bührle, 28 September 1956, with regard to the payment of the above sum and handwritten note by Emil Bührle, confirming the payment by check and the date of purchase. See also Letter from H. F. Fankhauser, Basel, to Emil Bührle, 13 September 1956, accompanying 3 expert reports by Giuseppe Fiocco, Hermann Voss and Rodolfo Pallucchini (now lost).
5Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich, Inv. 143 (1960).
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Antonio Morassi, Antonio e Francesco Guardi, 2 vol., Venice, 1973.
Exhibitions
1952Tiepolo et Guardi Galerie Cailleux • Paris • 1952 not in cat.
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. 89.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 143.
References
1952Giuseppe Fiocco «Il problema di Francesco Guardi» in Arte Veneta (6) 1952, p. 118, fig. 125.
1952Jean-Petit-Matile «Découverte d'un chef-d'œuvre de Francesco Guardi» in Vie, Art, Cité (15/3) • 1952 • p. 36–37 (ill.).
1973Antonio Morassi Antonio e Francesco Guardi Venice • 1973 • vol. 1, no. 177; vol. 2, fig. 202.
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle / Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle / Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 145 (ill.;21986).
1978«Repertorium venezianischer Gemälde in öffentlichem Schweizer Besitz» in Venezianische Kunst in der Schweiz und in Liechtenstein (exh. cat.) • Seedamm-Kulturzentrum • Pfäffikon (Schwyz) • 1978 • no. R32 (ill.; French edition: «Répertoire des peintures vénitiennes appartenant aux collections publiques de Suisse», in Art vénitien en Suisse et au Liechtenstein, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 27 (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. 10 (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. 534 (ill.).