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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. 98.
2Madame Edmond Bérend de Buffey Paris • 1884 Acquired at the above sale on 4 February 1884 for 550 francs, Merete Bodelsen, «Early Impressionist Sales 1874–1894 in the light of some unpublished ‘procès-verbaux’», in Burlington Magazine (110) 1968, p. 342, no. p. v. 25.
3Durand-Ruel Paris Bernheim-Jeune Paris Rouart/Wildenstein, (Pastels) no. 25.
4Monsieur Guyon Paris Rouart/Wildenstein, (Pastels) no. 25.
5Alphonse Kann St-Germain-en-Laye & London • by 1932 until [d.] 1948 Rouart/Wildenstein, (Pastels) no. 25.
6Confiscated by the «Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg» (ERR no. Ka 20), and taken over on behalf of Hermann Göring by Walter Andreas Hofer 12 July 1941 Nancy H. Yeide, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, The Hermann Goering Collection, Dallas 2009, no. D47.
7Traded to Galerie Fischer in exchange for works of art Lucerne • 2 October 1941 Yeide, as above; Esther Tisa Francini etc., Fluchtgut, Raubgut, Der Transfer von Kulturgütern in und über die Schweiz 1933–1945 und die Frage der Restitution, Unabhängige Expertenkommission Schweiz–Zweiter Weltkrieg (ed.), Zurich 2001, pp. 106 (n. 267), 286 (n. *1).
8Purchased by Emil Bührle Zurich • 18 April 1942 Purchased from Galerie Fischer for CHF 35.000, AStEGB, Letter from Emil Bührle to his lawyer, Dr. Walther Huber, Zurich, 22 August 1947. The figure corresponds to the amount which Bührle later claimed from Fischer in his lawsuit against the latter, and whilst Fischer refused to acknowledge obligation for reimbursement in principle, the figures as such where never questioned. Therefore, these figures defined the amounts which Fischer had to pay back to Bührle after the Federal Court came to the conclusion that Bührle had acquired the paintings in good faith, AStEGB, Swiss Federal Court, Kammer zur Beurteilung von Raubgutklagen/Chambre des actions en revendication de biens spoliés, Lausanne, Verdict of 5 July 1951 (typescript).
9Restituted to Alphonse Kann London • 5 July 1948 AStEGB, Swiss Federal Court, Kammer zur Beurteilung von Raubgutklagen/Chambre des actions en revendication de biens spoliés, Lausanne, Request for restitution of artworks by Alphonse Kann, London, vs. Emil Bührle, Zurich, Verdict of 5 July 1948 (typescript), stating that Bührle accepts restitution of 3 artworks to Kann, including Manet, Toilette.
10The estate of Alphonse Kann London & Paris 1948–1951 AStEGB, 2 Records with handwritten notes by Bührle, concerning two visits of Maître J. Metthey, Paris, acting on behalf of the heirs of Alphonse Kann, at Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon Bührle & Co., 25 January 1951 and 15 February 1951.
11Repurchased from the estate of Alphonse Kann by Emil Bührle Zurich • 3 February 1951 with Bührle until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired through Maître J. Metthey, Paris, along with two paintings by Degas for £ 24.000 altogether, Records as above, n. 10. On the first record, Bührle notes that the asking price of the Kann heirs is ca. 30.000 £ for the 3 works Degas, Madame Camus, Degas, Danseuses (Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 32, 35) and the pastel by Manet. A handwritten note by Bührle attached to the second record states that Metthey has accepted £ 24.000 for the lot on 3rd February 1951.
12Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 65.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich