Edouard Manet
Der Uhu
1881
Le Grand Duc
Öl auf Leinwand
97 x 64 cm
Signiert unten rechts: Manet
Rouart/Wildenstein 377
Denis Rouart, Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet, Catalogue raisonné, 2 vol., Lausanne & Paris, 1975.
Provenienz
1The estate of the artist Paris • 1883–1884 Catalogue de tableaux, pastels, études, dessins, gravures par Edouard Manet et dépendant de sa succession […], (sale cat.) Hôtel Drouot, Paris (4–5 February 1884), no. 88.
2Antoine (?) de la Narde Paris • 1884 Acquired at the above sale on 4 February 1884 for 380 francs, Merete Bodelsen, «Early Impressionist Sales 1874–1894 in the light of some unpublished ‘procès-verbaux’», in Burlington Magazine (110) 1968, p. 343, no. p. v. 135. It seems likely that the «Monsieur de la Narde», identified there, is identical with the antiques dealer Antoine de la Narde, the erstwhile owner of Courbet's Origine du monde.
3Louis-Henri Devillez Brussels • by 1930 Vincent van Gogh en zijn tijdgenooten, (exh. cat.) Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1930, no. 209. Rouart/Wildenstein no. 377.
4P. C., Brusselsca. 1948 Vente après décès, P. C., Galerie Georges Giroux, Brussels (27 November 1948), no. 39.
5Galerie Jean A. Seligmann Paris • until 1954 Chefs-d'œuvre de la curiosité du monde, 2e Exposition Internationale de la Confédération Internationale des Négociants en Œuvres d'Art (Musée des arts décoratifs), Paris 1954, no. 27; the catalogue entry indicates Bernoulli as the owner, the reproduction (fig. 33) indicates «Seligmann, Paris» as the owner. AStEGB, Letter from Dr. Heyligers, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, to Walter Drack, 11 July 1955, regarding the painting Manet, Le Grand-Duc; remembers the painting having been with Galerie Seligmann, Place Vendôme, Paris.
6Dr. Christoph Bernoulli Basel • by 1954/55 Vier Eeuwen Stilleven in Frankrijk, (exh. cat.) Museum Boymans, Rotterdam 1954, no. 89, Letter quoted above, n. (5), stating that the painting was with Christoph Bernoulli at the time of the exhibition.
7Emil Bührle Zurich • 7 September 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, together with a gothic sculpture, for CHF 122.500, Letter from Dr. Christoph Bernoulli, Saas-Almagel, to Emil Bührle, 2 August 1955, with indication of price, and Payment order from Emil Bührle to Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 7 September 1955, for the sum of CHF 122.500 to be paid by check to Dr. Christoph Bernoulli, Basel.
8Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 61.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Denis Rouart, Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet, Catalogue raisonné, 2 vol., Lausanne & Paris, 1975.
Ausstellungen
1884Exposition des œuvres de Edouard Manet Ecole nationale des Beaux-Arts • Paris • 1884 no. 110.
1930Vincent van Gogh en zijn tijdgenooten Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam • 1930 no. 209.
1954Chefs-d'œuvre de la curiosité du monde 2e Exposition Internationale de la Confédération Internationale des Négociants en Œuvres d'Art (Musée des arts décoratifs) • Paris • 1954 no. 27.
1954Vier Eeuwen Stilleven in Frankrijk Museum Boymans • Rotterdam • 1954 no. 89.
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. 151.
1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 18.
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. 26.
2002Edouard Manet und die Impressionisten Staatsgalerie Stuttgart • 2002–03 no. 72.
2005Manet Complesso del Vittoriano • Rome • 2005–06 no. 126.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 61.
2011Von Schönheit und Tod, Tierstillleben von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne Staatliche Kunsthalle • Karlsruhe • 2011–12 no. 109.
2016Von Dürer bis van Gogh, Sammlung Bührle trifft Wallraf Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud • Cologne • 2016–17 no. 27.
2017Chefs-d'oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l'Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 22.
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. 21.
Literatur
1902Théodore Duret Histoire d'Edouard Manet et de son œuvre, Avec un catalogue des peintures et des pastels Paris • 1902 •no. 278 (21909, 31919, 41926; German edition: Edouard Manet, Sein Leben und seine Kunst, Berlin 1910 • English edition: Manet and the French Impressionists, London & Philadelphia 1910; 22009).
1912Julius Meier-Graefe Edouard Manet Munich • 1912 • p. 325.
1926Etienne Moreau-Nélaton Manet raconté par lui-même Paris •1926 • vol. 2, p. 130.
1931Adolphe Tabarant Manet,Histoire catalographique Paris • 1931 • no. 362.
1932Paul Jamot • Georges Wildenstein Manet Paris • 1932 • vol. 1 • no. 463 • vol. 2, fig. 424.
1947Adolphe Tabarant Manet et ses œuvres Paris • 1947 • pp. 419–420, fig. 387.
1967Sandra Orienti • Marcello Venturi L'opera pittorica di Edouard Manet Milan • 1967 • no. 356B (ill.; English edition: Sandra Orienti, Phoebe Pool, The Complete Paintings of Manet, New York 1967 • German edition: Das gemalte Werk von Edouard Manet, Lucerne etc. 1967 • French edition: Denis Rouart, Sandra Orienti, Tout l'oeuvre peint d'Edouard Manet, Paris 1970).
1968Merete Bodelsen «Early Impressionist Sales 1874–1894 in the light of some unpublished 'procès-verbaux'» in Burlington Magazine (110) • 1968 • p. 343, no. p. v. 135.
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 36 (ill.; 21986).
1975Denis Rouart • Daniel Wildenstein Edouard Manet, Catalogue raisonné Lausanne & Paris • 1975 • vol. 2 Peintures no. 377 (ill.).
1991Eric Darragon Manet Paris • 1991 • p. 341, fig. 247.
1991Juliet Wilson-Bareau Manet by Himself, Correspondence & Conversation, Paintings, Pastels, Prints & Drawings London & Sidney • 1991 • p. 313, fig. 218 (2New York 1995; 32004).
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • pp. 41–42 (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. 76 (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. 483 (ill.).