Provenienz
1Jules Luquet Paris Fernier no. 71.
2Dr. G. Potel Lille • 1899 Charles Léger, Courbet, Paris 1929, p. 49.
3Salavin Paris • by 1952/53 AStEGB, Letter from Dr. Walter Drack [curator of the Bührle Collection] to F. K. Lloyd, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, 3 August 1955, asking for information regarding the provenance of the painting and referring to a label (now lost) on the back of the painting: «Smlg. Salavin, Paris»; Gustave Courbet 1819–1877, (exh. cat.) Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London 1953, no. 6 refers to a private collector in Paris as the lender.
4Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London • by 1955 AStEGB, Inventory Card Courbet, Un Chasseur; an information given by Marlborough International Fine Art to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, 24 August 2012, suggests as a possible intermediary in Paris Alphonse Bellier, commissaire-priseur.
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 27 June 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for £ 7.000 (= CHF 84.000), AStEGB, Price list, handwritten by Emil Bührle and containing the names of five artists, including Courbet; 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 £ 66.000 (= CHF 792.000) and included Boucher’s Deux paysannes, Goya’s Procession, and Ochtervelt’s Backgammon Players (Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 122, 143, 155); AStEGB, Entry Book II, 27 June 1955, lists part of these paintings, along with a group of four drawings by Picasso which Bührle acquired around the same time.
6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 no. 24
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich