Provenance
1Galerie Durand-Ruel Paris AStEGB, Label «DURAND-RUEL / PARIS 16, Rue Laffitte / NEW-YORK, 297, Fifth avenue / [handwritten:] Daumier no. 2554 / Spectacle gratis».
2D. A. Wanklyn Montreal • 1900 until ca. 1945 AStEGB, Expertise, signed by Lionello Venturi, New York, 7 January 1946, with reference to the Wanklyn Collection, and the date of 1900.
3E. & A. Silberman, Inc. New York • by 1945 until 1954 AStEGB, Letter from Gordon B. Washburn, Director, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (Rhode Island), to Abris Silberman, New York, 12 December 1945; Entry Book II, 15 July 1954.
4Emil Bührle Zurich • 15 July 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, Entry Book as above, n. (3), with reference to the date of purchase.
5Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 27
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Karl-Eric Maison, Honoré Daumier, Catalogue raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, 2 vol., Paris, 1967-1968.
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. 122.
1959De Géricault à Matisse, Chefs-d'œuvre français des collections suisses Petit Palais • Paris • 1959 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. 16.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 27.
2017Chefs-d'oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l'Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 5.
2017Gefeiert & verspottet, Französische Malerei 1820–1880 Kunsthaus Zurich • 2017–18 no. 30.
2019Daumier – PettibonKunstmuseum Winterthur (Reinhart am Stadtgarten) • 2019 no. 10.
References
1908Erich Klossowski Honoré Daumier Munich • 1908 • no. 92, fig. 43, top (21923 [not ill.]).
1923André Fontainas La peinture de Daumier Paris • 1923, (ill., no no.)
1923Raymond Escholier Daumier, Peintre et lithographe Paris • 1923 • p. 151 (ill.; 21930, fig. 17; 31938, p. 159 [ill.]).
1924Michael Sadleir Daumier, The Man and the Artist London • 1924 • fig. 13.
1927Eduard Fuchs Der Maler Daumier Munich • 1927 • no. 137.
1938Jacques Lassaigne Daumier Paris • 1938 • p. 139 (ill.; German & English edition; 21947; English edition).
1938Benno Fleischmann Honoré Daumier, Gemälde, Graphik Vienna • 1938 • fig. 35 (French edition: Maurice Sachs, Honoré Daumier, Paris 1939).
1949Jean Cassou Daumier Lausanne • 1949 • fig. 44.
1950Marcel Fischer Daumier, Der Maler Berne • 1950 • fig. 44.
1954Jean Adhémar Honoré Daumier Paris • 1954 • fig. 25 (German edition).
1955Nina Kalitina Honoré Daumier 1808–1879 [in Russian] • Moscow • 1955 • fig. 171.
1968Karl Eric Maison Honoré Daumier, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings London • 1968 • vol. 1 The Paintings no II–46.
1971Luigi Barzini • Gabriele Mandel L’opera pittorica completa di Daumier Milan • 1971 • no. 110 (ill.; German edition: Das gemalte Gesamtwerk von Daumier, Lucerne etc. 1971 • French edition: Pierre Georgel, Gabriel Mandel, Tout l'œuvre peint de Daumier, Paris 1972).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 20 (ill.; 21986).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 36 (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.44 (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. 406 (ill.).