Provenance

1Théodore Willy Paul Leuner & Liselotte Leuner Chaumercenne • Haut-Saône • by 1952 Jean-Petit-Matile, «Découverte d’un chef- d’œuvre de Francesco Guardi», in Vie, Art, Cité (15/3) 1952, p. 36–37 (ill.), with thanks to Liselotte Leuner for having provided the opportunity to publish the painting; Liselotte was the wife of Théodore Willy Paul Leuner, who is remembered by older inhabitants of Chaumercenne as having been a painting restorer, Information kindly given to Foundation E.G Bührle Collection by Alain Thiebaut, Chaumercenne, E-Mail-Correspondence 26–28 January 2021. 

2Art trade Paris • 1952 Tiepolo et Guardi, Galerie Cailleux, Paris 1952, not in catalogue; Giuseppe Fiocco, «Il problema di Francesco Guardi», in Arte Veneta (6) 1952, p. 118, fig. 125**.

3Dr. Hans Wendland Paris AStEGB, Correspondence between H. F. Fankhauser, Basel, acting on behalf of his brother-in-law, Dr. Hans Wendland, and Emil Bührle or Peter Dietschi [curator of the Bührle collection], 4 September–16 October 1956.

4Emil Bührle Zurich • 10 October 1956 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired through the medium of H. F. Fankhauser, Basel, from the above for CHF 62.000, Invoice from H. F. Fankhauser, Basel, made out to Emil Bührle, 4 September 1956; Letter from H. F. Fankhauser, Basel, to Emil Bührle, 28 September 1956, with regard to the payment of the above sum and handwritten note by Emil Bührle, confirming the payment by check and the date of purchase. See also Letter from H. F. Fankhauser, Basel, to Emil Bührle, 13 September 1956, accompanying 3 expert reports by Giuseppe Fiocco, Hermann Voss and Rodolfo Pallucchini (now lost).

5Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich, Inv. 143 (1960).

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