Auguste Renoir
Irène Cahen d`Anvers (Die kleine Irene)
1880
Irène Cahen d'Anvers (La petite Irène)
Öl auf Leinwand
65 x 54 cm
Signiert & datiert oben rechts: Renoir 80
Dauberville 506
Guy-Patrice Dauberville, Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 5 vol., Paris, 2007-2014.
1Louis & Louise Cahen d'Anvers-de Morpurgo Paris • 1880 According to Dauberville no. 506, the portrait was commissioned by Louis Cahen d'Anvers, but in 1900, the painting was exhibited as a loan from Mme L. Cahen d'Anvers (Exposition A. Renoir, Galeries Bernheim-Jeune, Paris 1900, no. 14).
2Béatrice Reinach, née Camondo Neuilly-sur-Seine • by 1933 until [d.] 1945 Granddaughter of the above, Archives nationales, Paris, Musées nationaux, 201447921/274, Letter from Léon Reinach [husband of Béatrice Reinach-Camondo], Neuilly-sur-Seine, to Direction des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 10 August 1941, stating that the painting had been given to his wife by her grandmother.
3Confiscated by the «Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg» in Chambord, turned over to Hermann Göring and traded by Göring for a Florentine Tondo to Gustav Rochlitz (Inv. R 1529) Paris & Berlin • 7 July 1941 & 10 March 1942 Nancy H. Yeide, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, The Hermann Goering Collection, Dallas 2009, no. D100; regarding the confiscation see Letter from Leon Reinach, as above n. (2), detailing the contributions of the Camondo family to the French cultural heritage, in a – vain – attempt to obtain the painting's return.
4Recovered and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (no. 8035) 4 September 1945 Yeide, as above, n. (3).
5Returned to Paris and restituted to Comtesse Irène Sampieri-Camondo, née Cahen d'Anvers Paris • 27 March 1946 Mother of Béatrice Reinach, as above n. (2), Yeide, as above, n. (3); for a detailed account of the events surrounding seizure and return of the painting, and its later sale to Emil Bührle see Lukas Gloor, «Emil Bührle: A Twentieth-Century Modern Art Collection», in The Emil Bührle Collection, History, Full Catalogue, and 70 Masterpieces, Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.), Munich 2021, pp. 111–113.
6Werner Feuz Clarens AStEGB, Letter from Werner Feuz, Paris, to Emil Bührle, 8 June 1949.
7Emil Bührle Zurich • 21 October 1949 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 240.000, AStEGB, Declaration signed by Werner Feuz and confirming the sale of the painting to Emil Bührle for CHF 240.000, 21 October 1949; Receipt from Werner Feuz made out to Emil Bührle for the sum of CHF 240.000, Zurich, 21 October 1949.
8Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 90.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Guy-Patrice Dauberville, Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 5 vol., Paris, 2007-2014.
1881Ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, gravure, lithographie et architecture des artistes vivants… [Salon de 1881] Société des artistes français (Palais des Champs-Elysées) • Paris • 1881 no. 1986 or 1987.
1883Exposition des œuvres de P. A. Renoir Galeries Durand-Ruel • Paris • 1883 no. 6.
1900Exposition A. Renoir Galeries Bernheim-Jeune • Paris • 1900 no. 14.
1933Exposition Renoir 1841–1919 Orangerie des Tuileries • Paris • 1933 no. 57.
1938Renoir portraitiste Galeries Bernheim-Jeune • Paris • 1938 no. 13.
1946Les Chefs-d'Œuvre des collections privées françaises retrouvés en Allemagne par la Commission de récupération artistique et les Services alliés Orangerie des Tuileries • Paris • 1946 no. 41.
1947Cent chefs'd'œuvre de l'art français contemporain Galerie Charpentier • Paris • 1947.
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. 169.
1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen, Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 31.
1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 132.
1959Die Handschrift des Künstlers 13. Ruhrfestspiele (Kunsthalle) • Recklinghausen • 1959 no. 265.
1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 50 (exhibited in London only).
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. 52.
1996Renoir Kunsthalle Tübingen • 1996 no. 63.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 90.
2010Renoir, Tradition and Innovation National Art Center, Tokyo • National Museum of Art, Osaka • 2010 no. 72 (exhibited in Osaka only).
2011Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso & Co. Kunsthalle Tübingen • 2011–12 p. 83.
2016Storie dell'impressionismo, I grandi protagonisti da Monet a Renoir da Van Gogh a Gauguin Museo di Santa Caterina • Treviso • 2016–17 no. 17.
2017Chefs-d'oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l'Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 30.
2018Bührle Collection: Impressionist Masterpieces from the E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich (Switzerland) National Art Center, Tokyo • Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka • Nagoya City Art Museum • 2018 no. 34.
2019La Collection Emil BührleMusée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 19.
1883Joris-Karl Huysmans L'Art moderne Paris • 1883 • p. 184.
1935Alfred C. Barnes • Viola de Mazia The Art of Renoir New York • 1935 • no. 104, p. 264 (ill.).
1939Henri Michaux «Visages de jeunes filles» in Verve(2, no. 5-6) • 1939 • p. 90 (ill.).
1940Reginald Howard Wilenski Modern French Painters London • 1940 • pp. 46 (n. 2), 63, 340 (21944; 31945; 41947).
1944Michel Drucker Renoir Paris • 1944 • pp. 185, 202, fig. 59 (21949, pp. 179, 197, fig. 60).
1948Marcel Zahar Renoir London • 1948 • fig. 37 (French edition: Paris 1948 • Spanish edition: Buenos Aires 1948 • Dutch edition: Amsterdam 1949).
1950Jean Cassou Renoir, Peintures 1868–1895 Paris • 1950 • front cover ill.
1955Michel Drucker Renoir Paris • 1955 • fig. 48.
1957Arnold Kübler «Die Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle» in Du (17, no. 12) • 1957 • p. 51 (ill.).
1959Hermann Bünemann Renoir Ettal • 1959 • p. 157 (ill.).
1959Michel Robida Renoir, Enfants Lausanne • 1959 • p. 21 (ill.).
1959Denys Sutton «The Bührle Collection» in The Connoisseur (143) • 1959 • p. 146.
1961François Fosca Renoir, L'Homme et son œuvre Paris • 1961 • p. 125 (ill.; German edition: Renoir, Der Mensch und sein Werk, Gütersloh 1961 • English edition: Renoir, His Life and Work, New York 1961).
1963René Wehrli «Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, French Nineteenth-Century Paintings» in Great Private Collections Douglas Cooper (ed.) • New York • 1963 • p. 220.
1967Michel Drucker Renoir Paris • 1967 • fig. 14.
1969François Fosca Renoir Gütersloh • 1969 • p. 149 (ill.).
1971François Daulte Auguste Renoir: Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint vol. 1 Figures 1860–1890 Lausanne • 1971 • no. 338 (ill.).
1972Elda Fezzi L'opera completa di Renoir nel periodo impressionista 1869–1883 Milan • 1972 • fig. 60, no. 428 (ill.; German edition: Das gemalte Gesamtwerk von Renoir aus der impressionistischen Periode 1869–1883, Lucerne etc. 1972, fig. 55 • French edition: Elda Fezzi, Jacqueline Henry, Tout l'œuvre peint de Renoir, Période impressionniste 1869–1883, Paris 1985).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 62 (ill.; 21986).
1977Yasuo Kamon • Takeshi Kashiwa Renoir Tokyo • 1977 • no. 19 (ill.).
1980Joel Isaacson etc. The Crisis of Impressionism 1878–1882 (exh. cat.) • University of Michigan Museum of Art • Ann Arbor • 1980 • p. 32.
1984Barbara Ehrlich White Renoir, His Life, Art, and Letters New York • 1984 • p. 101 (ill.).
1985Norio Shimada Renoir Tokyo • 1985 • p. 80, fig. 30.
1985Auguste Renoir (exh. cat.) • Hayward Gallery London etc. • 1985 • p. 224, entry for cat. no. 53 (French edition: [exh. cat.] Grand Palais, Paris 1986, p. 184).
1987Horst Keller Auguste Renoir Munich • 1987 • fig. 60.
1988Von Courbet bis Picasso, Schätze des Museums São Paulo (exh. cat.) • Villa Stuck • Munich etc. • Milan • 1988 • p. 122 (ill.).
1989Patrick Bade Renoir Vaduz • 1989 • pp. 98–99 (ill.).
1990Sophie Monneret Renoir Cologne • 1990 • pp. 84–85 (ill.).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • pp. 11–12 (ill.; English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
1997Colin B. Bailey Renoir's Portraits, Impressions of an Age New Haven (Connecticut) & London • 1997 • pp. 8, 181, n. 79, fig. 10 (French edition: Les portraits de Renoir, Impressions d'une époque, Paris 1997).
1997Pierre Assouline Le dernier des Camondo Paris • 1997 • pp. 309–312, 318.
????Hans A. Lüthy «The E.G. Bührle Foundation» in Apollo (110) • 1979 • p. 326.
1998Christian Bührle «Die Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle in Zürich» in Die Kunst zu sammeln, Schweizer Kunstsammlungen seit 1848 • L'art de collectionner, Collections d'art en Suisse depuis 1848 • L'arte di collezionare, Collezioni svizzere d'arte dal 1848 Swiss Institute for Art Research (ed.) • Zurich • 1998 • p. 136, fig. 6.
1999Faces of Impressionism, Portraits from American Collections (exh. cat.) • Baltimore Museum of Art etc. • 1999–2000 • p. 154.
2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 93 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2007Guy-Patrice Dauberville • Michel Dauberville Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles vol. 1 1858–1881 Paris • 2007 • no. 506 (ill.).
2009Anne Distel Renoir Paris • 2009 • pp. 179–180, fig. 161.
2009Nancy H. Yeide Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, The Hermann Goering Collection Dallas • 2009 • no. D100 (ill.).
2010Virginie Michel «La Spoliation des œuvres de la collection Reinach» in La splendeur des Camondo, De Constantinople à Paris 1806–1945 (exh. cat.) • Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme • Paris • 2010 • p. 147.
2011Cézanne, Picasso, Polke & Co., 40 Jahre Kunsthalle Tübingen und Götz Adriani (exh. cat.) • Kunsthalle Tübingen • 2011–12 • pp. 83 (ill.), 284.
2014Lukas Gloor «Renoir en Suisse, Une réception fluctuante/Renoir in der Schweiz, Im Auf und Ab der Publikumsgunst» in Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Revoir Renoir (exh. cat.) • Fondation Pierre Gianadda • Martigny • 2014 • pp. 37, 39, fig. 8.
2017Barbara Ehrlich White Renoir, An Intimate Biography London • 2017 • p. 102.
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. 173 (ill.).