Provenance

1The estate of the artist Paris • 1863–1864 Listed in the inventory established after the artist's death in his house «Champrosay» (10 September 1863), Henriette Bessis, «L'Inventaire après décès d'Eugène Delacroix», in Bulletin [1969] de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français, Paris 1971, p. 210, no. 3; Catalogue de la vente qui aura lieu par la suite du décès de Eugène Delacroix, Hôtel Drouot, Paris (17–29 February 1864), no. 109.

2Hartmann1864 Acquired at the above sale, 17/19 February 1864 for FF 500, Annotated copy of the above sale catalogue at the Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux (Louvre), Paris; Johnson no. 253.

3Leopold Biermann Bremen • by 1914 until [d.] 1922 Internationale Ausstellung, (exh. cat.) Kunsthalle Bremen 1914, no. 96. In an appraisal of the Biermann collection, most probably established shortly before Biermann's death by Emil Waldmann, director of the Kunsthalle Bremen, the painting is listed, along with its pendant, as two decoration paintings, valued at FF 20.000, E-mail-message from Dr. Dorothee Hansen, curator of the Kunsthalle Bremen, to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, 12 January 2008.

4Mrs. L. Biermann Bremen • 1922 until at least 1932 Archive Oskar Reinhart Collection «Am Römerholz», Winterthur, Letter from Dr. Fritz Nathan, Munich, to Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur, 8 October 1930, with information regarding the pair of paintings which Mrs. Biermann intended to sell. Two years later, the paintings were offered by Dr. Alfred Pauli [son of Gustav Pauli, former director of the Kunsthalle Bremen], then residing in Amsterdam, to Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur, who turned down the offer on 6 January 1932, Archive Oskar Reinhart Collection «Am Römerholz», Winterthur, Note Book 30/I «Offerten 1929–1936», p. 51.

5Graphisches Kabinett Bremen • by 1933 According to a handwritten note on File no. A-47-16760, established by the U.S. Civil Censorship Division, European Command, on 6 March 1947, and most possibly based upon an information given by the owner, the two paintings were acquired in 1933 from Graphisches Kabinett, Bremen. Information, including copy of File, kindly given to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection by Susanne Kienlechner, Munich, granddaughter of Dr. Franz and Lisa Boner, 5 September 2015.

6Dr. Franz Boner Berlin • 1933 until [d.] 1941 Information as above, n. (5).

7Mrs. Lisa Boner-Strube Berlin & Bergen • Upper Bavaria • 1941–1954 Widow of the above. The reason for an investigation in regard to the painting, made by the U.S. Civil Censorship Division, European Command, was a letter sent on 6 November 1946 to Mrs. Lisa Boner, Bergen (Upper Bavaria), from Professor Dr. Richard Hertz, Iowa, referring to a Delacroix in the addressee's possession. Based upon an insurance list, provided on 15 July 1947, the USCCD came to the conclusion, that Mrs. Boner was the legal owner of Delacroix's Triumph of Bacchus, File as above, n. (5).

8Dr. Fritz Nathan Zurich • 1954 Sold to Dr. Fritz Nathan by Mrs. Lisa Boner, Information as above, n. (5).

9Emil Bührle Zurich • 28 October 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 120.000 the pair, AStEGB, Receipt from Dr. Fritz Nathan, Zurich, 28 October 1954, for an amount of CHF 96.400 for two paintings by Delacroix, Triumph of Bacchus and Triumph of Amphitrite, worth CHF 120.000, minus CHF 23.600 for a Guardi, Capriccio, accepted as part of the payment.

10Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 128.

AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich