The Dinner · Claude Monet · Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle

Claude Monet

The Dinner

1868/69

Le Dîner

Oil on canvas

50 x 65 cm

Signed lower left: Claude Monet

Wildenstein 129

Vergrössern

Drucken

Provenance

1Durand-Ruel Paris • 1873 Acquired from the artist in February 1873, Wildenstein no. 129.

2François Depeaux Rouen • until 1906 Collection Depeaux, Tableaux modernes, aquarelles, pastels, dessins, Vente à Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (31 May–1 June 1906), no. 19; François Depeaux, L’Homme aux 600 tableaux,(exh. cat.) Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen 2020, no. 100 (répertoire no. 153).

3Bernheim-Jeune Paris • 1906 Acquired at the above sale for 3.000 francs, Tellier as above, n. (2).

4Julius Stern Berlin Wildenstein no. 129.

5Hugo Nathan Frankfurt/Main • by 1913 until [d.] 1922 Frankfurter Kunstschätze, Eine Auswahl der schönsten und wertvollsten Gemälde des 19. Jahrhunderts aus Frankfurter Privatbesitz, (exh. cat.) Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main 1913, no. 59.

6Martha Nathan Frankfurt/Main & Paris • 1922 until at least 1938 Widow of the above; AStEGB, Copies of documents regarding provenance history of Monet, Le Dîner, sent by Rowland & Associates, New York, to Kunsthalle Basel, 14 June 2005, and forwarded to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, 21 July 2005: Letter from Dr. Fritz Mertens [the lawyer representing Martha Nathan during her emigration from Germany], to Polizeipräsidium Frankfurt, 21 April 1938, stating that the paintings belonging to Martha Nathan were on deposit with the Kunsthalle Basle since September 1930; Letter from Martha Nathan, Paris, to Kunsthalle Basel, 1 December 1938, authorizing bearer to view her paintings in the Kunsthalle Basel; Typewritten list of 17 paintings, including the present picture, with handwritten notes by Georges Wildenstein from a visit in the Kunsthalle Basel. Martha Nathan, who owned French citizenship, moved to Switzerland in August 1939 and settled in Geneva, where she died in 1958.

7Galerie Aktuaryus Zurich • by 1944 AStEGB, Receipted invoice from Galerie Aktuaryus made out to Emil Bührle, 11 October 1944, and confirming that the painting had been in Switzerland since before 1939.

8Emil Bührle Zurich • 16 October 1944 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 28.000, AStEGB, Receipted invoice as above n. (7), receipt dated 16 October 1944.

9Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 75.

AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich

Exhibitions

1880La Vie moderne Galerie de la Gazette • Bvd. des Italiens • Paris • 1880 no. 16 (?).

1913Frankfurter Kunstschätze, Eine Auswahl der schönsten und wertvollsten Gemälde des 19. Jahrhunderts aus Frankfurter Privatbesitz Frankfurter Kunstverein • Frankfurt/Main • 1913 no. 59.

1928Claude Monet 1840–1926, Gedächtnis-Ausstellung Galerie Thannhauser • Berlin • 1928 no. 4.

1944«Paris d’autrefois» Galerie Aktuaryus • Zurich • 1944 no. 35.

1949Impressionisten, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Vorläufer und Zeitgenossen Kunsthalle Basel • 1949 no. 76.

1952Claude Monet 1840–1926 Kunsthaus Zurich • 1952 no. 24.

1952Claude Monet Galerie de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Wildenstein) • Paris • 1952 no. 12.

1952Claude Monet Gemeentemuseum Den Haag • 1952 no. 12.

1954Claude Monet 1840–1926 Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. • London • 1954 no. 1.

1957Claude Monet, An Exhibition of Paintings Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • Tate Gallery, London • 1957 no. 14.

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. 179.

1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen • Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 8.

1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 111.

1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 40.

1990The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, Catalogue of the Exhibition in Commemoration of the 100^th 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. 46.

1996Claude Monet Österreichische Galerie Belvedere • Vienna • 1996 no. 13.

2009La Sombra Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza • Madrid • 2009 no. 39.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 75.

2010Claude Monet 1840–1926 Grand Palais • Paris • 2010–11 no. 99.

2015Monet and the Birth of Impressionism (Monet und die Geburt des Impressionismus) Städel Museum • Frankfurt/Main • 2015 no. 38.

2020François Depeaux, L’Homme aux 600 tableaux Musée des Beaux-Arts • Rouen • 2020 no. 100 (répertoire no. 153).

References

1908Vittorio Pica Gl› Impressionisti Francesi Bergamo • 1908 • p. 58 (ill.).

1916Georg Swarzenski «Die Sammlung Hugo Nathan in Frankfurt a. M.» in Kunst und Künstler (15) • 1916/17 • pp. 112–113 (ill.).

1924Marc Elder A Giverny, Chez Claude Monet Paris • 1924 • fig. 13.

1925Florent Fels Claude Monet Paris • 1925 • p. 31 (ill.).

1945Georg Schmidt «Die Stellung des Künstlers in der menschlichen Gesellschaft» in Du (May) • 1945 • p. 16 (ill.).

1948Oscar Reuterswärd Monet, En konstnärshistorik Stockholm • 1948 • pp. 37 (ill.), 280.

1956Viktor Griessmaier Impressionismus Vienna • 1956 • fig. 7.

1958Doris Wild «Zur Ausstellung der Sammlung Bührle» in Alte und neue Kunst (9, no. 1/2) • 1958 • p. 18.

1959Benno Reifenberg Auguste Renoir, Das Ehepaar Sisley Stuttgart • 1959 • p. 26, fig. 11.

1961John Rewald The History of Impressionism New York • ³1961 • p. 233 (ill., top; ⁴1973, & various translations and editions).

1963René Wehrli «Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, French Nineteenth-Century Paintings» in Great Private Collections Douglas Cooper (ed.) • New York • 1963 • p. 219.

1967John Rewald «Notes sur deux tableaux de Claude Monet» in Gazette des Beaux-Arts (70) • 1967 • pp. 245-248, fig. 1.

1972Luigina Rossi Bortolatto L’Opera completa di Claude Monet 1870–1889 Milan • 1972 • no. 58 (ill.; ²1978; German edition: Das Gesamtwerk von Monet 1870–1889, Lucerne etc. 1972 • French edition: Janine Bailly-Herzberg, Luigina Rossi Bortolatto, Tout l’œuvre peint de Monet 1870–1889, Paris 1981, no. 26 [ill.]).

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 69 (ill.; ²1986).

1973Kermit Swiler Champa Studies in Early Impressionism New Haven & London • 1973 • p. 29, fig. 38.

1974Daniel Wildenstein Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné vol. 1, Peintures 1840–1881 • Lausanne & Paris • 1974 • p. 112, n. 848, no. 129 (ill.; ²Monet, Catalogue raisonné; Werkverzeichnis, vol. 2, Nos. 1–968, Cologne 1996).

1976Theodore Reff Degas, The Artist’s Mind New York • 1976 • pp. 222–223, fig. 148.

1977Theodore Reff Degas, A Master among Masters New York • 1977 • fig. 36.

1978Joel Isaacson Observation and Reflection, Claude Monet Oxford • 1978 • pp. 63 (ill.), 197 (French Edition: Claude Monet, Observation et réflexion, Neuchâtel 1978).

1991ReVision, Die Moderne im Städel 1906–1937 Städelsches Kunstinstitut • Frankfurt/Main • 1991–92 • p. 36, fig. 6.

1992Alfred Sisley (exh.cat.) • Royal Academy of Art • London etc. • 1992–93 • fig. 138.

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 39 (ill.; English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).

2005Pamela Todd Im Salon, Zu Besuch bei den Impressionisten Stuttgart • 2005 • p. 72 (ill.).

2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 78 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

2005Monet und Camille, Frauenportraits im Impressionismus (exh. cat.) • Kunsthalle Bremen • 2005–06 • p. 26 (ill.).

2010Marc-Henri Tellier François Depeaux (1853–1920), Le charbonnier et les impressionnistes Rouen • 2010 • p. 187 (ill. top), no. 290.

2010Mary Mathews Gedo Monet and His Muse, Camille Monet in the Artist’s Life Chicago & London • 2010 • p. 89.

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. 119 (ill.).

2021Elisabeth Eggimann Gerber Jüdische Kunsthändler und Galeristen, Eine Kulturgeschichte des Schweizer Kunsthandels mit einem Porträt der Galerie Aktuaryus in Zürich, 1924–1946 Cologne & Vienna • 2021 pp. 277, 280, fig. 39, 41.