Emil Bührle Collection

Jan Steen

The Journal Readers

1660/70

Oil on wood

34.5 x 44.5 cm

Signed lower right: JSteen

Vergrössern

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Provenance

1A. Phipps by 1815 John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, vol. 4, London 1833, p. 68, no. 206.

2Williams Phipps by 1834 Handwritten label on the back of the panel «The gift of the Hon. Ws Phipps / 1834».

3General (Colonel) Davis Elmley Castle • Pershore • by 1882 Old Masters, Worcestershire Exhibition, Fine Arts Section, Worcester 1882, no. 440 (label on the back of the panel).

4Dowdeswell & Dowdeswell, Ltd. London Printed label on the back of the panel.

5Marcus Kappel Berlin • by 1914–[d.] 1919 Wilhelm von Bode, Die Gemäldesammlung Marcus Kappel in Berlin, Berlin 1914, no. 31 (ill.).

6The estate of Marcus Kappel Berlin • 1919–1930 Gemälde und Kunstgegenstände aus der ehemaligen Sammlung Marcus Kappel, Berlin, (sale cat.) Paul Cassirer, Hugo Helbing, Berlin (25 November 1930), no. 20 (ill.).

7Kunsthandel Bachstitz The Hague M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. New York • by 1930 Karel Braun, Alle tot nu toe bekende schilderijen van Jan Steen, Rotterdam 1980, no. 70 (ill.).

8Dr. E. M. Ettlinger London • 1930–1955 AStEGB, Letter from Dr. Arthur Kauffmann, London, to Dr. Walter Drack [curator of the Bührle Collection], 15 April 1955, with detailed provenance, exhibition, and publication references.

9Dr. Arthur Kauffmann London Dr. Fritz Nathan Zurich • 1955 Acquired for £ 3.675, Kauffmann Inventory, Journal 4, no. 1478, 14/1/55, indicating that Eugene Slatter, London, had a 2/3 share in the painting; AStEGB, Entry Book II, 12 March 1955, identifying Dr. Arthur Kauffmann as the consignor.

10Emil Bührle Zurich • 16 April 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for £ 5.500, Journal as above, n. (9), crediting the sale of the painting to Dr. Fritz Nathan on 16 April 1955; the payment of the above amount is confirmed by an entry in Kauffmann Inventory, Account Book, 1955, April 16.

11Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 165.

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

Exhibitions

1815Pictures of the Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch and French Schools with which the Proprietors Have Favoured the Institution British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom (Pall-Mall Gallery) • London • 1815 no. 47.

1882Old Masters Worcestershire Exhibition, Fine Arts Section • Worcester • 1882 no. 440.

1914Ausstellung von Werken alter Kunst aus dem Privatbesitz von Mitgliedern des Kaiser Friedrich Museumsvereins Königliche Akademie der Künste • Berlin • 1914 no. 160.

1955Alte Meister aus der Sammlung E. Bührle, Zürich Jegenstorf Castle • Jegenstorf (Bern) • 1955 no. 26.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 165.

References

1824An Account of all the Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the British Institution from 1813 to 1823, Belonging to the Nobility and Gentry of England, With Remarks, Critical and Explanatory London • 1824.

1833John Smith A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters vol. 4 • London • 1833 • p. 68, no. 206.

1907Cornelis Hofstede de Groot Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts vol. 1 • Esslingen/Neuss & Paris • 1907 • pp. 162–163, 242, no. 669 (English edition: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London 1909, 2Cambridge 1976).

1908Abraham Bredius «[Review of] Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, ‹Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts›, Band 1», in Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft (31) • 1908 • p. 85.

1914Wilhelm von Bode Die Gemäldesammlung Marcus Kappel in Berlin Berlin • 1914 • p. 18, no. 31 (ill.).

1914Algernon Graves A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813–1912 vol. 3 R–U London • 1914 • p. 1255, vol. 5, Second Addenda and Indexes, London 1915, p. 2290.

1917Wilhelm von Bode Die Meister der holländischen und vlämischen Malerschulen Leipzig • 1917 • p. 116 (ill.; 2-41919–1923, p. 118 [ill.] • Wilhelm von Bode, Eduard Plietzsch, Die Meister der holländischen und flämischen Malerschulen, 61951, p. 148 [ill.], 71953–91958, p. 152 [ill.]).

1927Abraham Bredius Jan Steen, Met honderd platen in photogravure Amsterdam • 1927 • fig. 91 (ill.).

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 166 (ill.;21986).

1980Karel Braun Alle tot nu toe bekende schilderijen van Jan Steen Rotterdam • 1980 • no. 70 (ill.).

2007Beat Kümin Drinking Matters, Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe Basingstoke (Hampshire) & New York • 2007 • fig. XIV.

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 20 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).

2005Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 24 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

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. 437 (ill.).