Provenienz
1Bernheim-Jeune Paris Brame/Laurenceau no. 640.
2Mrs. W. F. Robertson Scotland • by 1943 Exhibition label on the upper left of the stretcher: THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF GLASGOW / Glasgow Art Gallery & Museums / Title «PÉNICHES EN RIVIÈRE» / Artist ALFRED SISLEY / Owner Mrs. W. F. Robertson / Medium … Size / Exhibition «SPIRIT OF FRANCE» 1943 / Catalogue No. 36 … Registered No. …
3Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London • by 1955 Camille Pissarro 1830–1903, Alfred Sisley 1839–1899, (exh. cat.) Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London 1955, no. 46.
4Emil Bührle Zurich • 27 June 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for £ 5.000 (= CHF 60.000), AStEGB, Price list, handwritten by Emil Bührle and containing the names of five artists, including Sisley; the Price list was drawn up for a group of mostly Old Master paintings whose purchase Bührle was negotiating with Frank Lloyd from Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London; that part of the purchase came to £ 30.000 (= CHF 360.000) and included four Old Master paintings, non of them today in the Emil Bührle Collection; AStEGB, Entry Book II, 27 June 1955, lists part of these paintings, along with a group of 4 drawings by Picasso which Bührle acquired around the same time.
5Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 98.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich