Provenance
1J. Carpenter Garnier Tookesbury Hall • Hampshire Wilhelm Bode, Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, The Complete Work of Rembrandt, vol. 3, Paris 1899, no. 156.
2Sir Charles J. Robinson London Bode as above, n. (1).
3Charles Sedelmeyer Paris Lawrie & Co. London M. Knoedler & Co. Inc. New York • by 1899 Rembrandt, Collection des œuvres réunis à l’occasion de l’inauguration de S. M. la Reine Wilhelmina, (exh. cat.) Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 1898, no. 38; Illustrated Catalogue of the Fifth Series of 100 Paintings by Old Masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French, and English Schools, Being a Portion of the Sedelmeyer Gallery which Contains about 1’500 Original Pictures by Ancient and Modern Artists, Paris 1899, no. 39 (ill.); Collecting in the Guilded Age, Art Patronage in Pittsburgh, 1890–1910, (exh. cat.) Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh 1997, p. 127.
4Alexander M. Byers Pittsburgh • 1899 until [d.] 1900 Acquired from the latter in March 1899, exh. cat. as above, pp. 127, 368, n. 53, fig. 59 (the painting hanging in the library of the Byers residence in Pittsburgh).
5The estate of A. M. Byers 1900 until at least 1932 Exhibition of Paintings by Old Masters from Pittsburgh Collections, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh 1925, no. 59; An Exhibition of the Alexander M. Byers Collection of Paintings, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh 1932; Collecting in the Guilded Age, exh. cat. as above n. (3), p. 173.
6Mr. H. E. ten Cate Almelo • by 1940 Masterpieces from the Two World’s Fairs, (exh. cat. ) Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo (Ohio) 1940, no. 32.
7Firma D. Katz Dieren Sammlung Emil G. Bührle (exh. cat.) Kunsthaus Zurich 1958, no. 69.
8Nathan Katz Basel • by 1946 AStEGB, Letter from Nathan Katz, Basel, to Emil Bührle, Zürich, 1 November 1946, confirming delivery of three paintings: two paintings [supposed to be] by Rembrandt, Saskia (the present painting) and Portrait of an Officer, and one painting by Frans Hals, Portrait of a Man (Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 151).
9Emil Bührle Zurich • 12 December 1946 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, AStEGB, Record concerning a visit of Nathan Katz with Dr. O. Maurer [Secretary General of Oerlikon Bührle & Co.] at the Oerlikon factory on 10 December 1946, stating that Katz required settlement for picture purchases before the end of the year. The total amount for the 3 pictures as listed above, n. (8), was CHF 600’000, an additional amount of CHF 210’000, paid at the same time, referred to a Rembrandt «Self Portrait», then attributed to the artist, which Katz had delivered to Bührle earlier; Letter from Nathan Katz, Riehen/Basel, 12 December 1946, confirming the sale of the 4 paintings, including, Rembrandt, Saskia, from the Byers Collection, Pittsburgh, and the receipt of the amount due. The amount of CHF 810’000 for the lot, not specified in the receipt as above, is corroborated by a list, kept with the files regarding Bührle’s taxation 1947, Canton of Zurich, State Archives, Zurich, Z 418.789, Taxation 1947 Emil Bührle-Schalk, «Steuerpflichtige Fahrhabe», List of paintings purchased between November 1945 and January 1948, confirming payment of CHF 810’000 to Nathan Katz, Basel, on 11 December 1946; for a detailed account regarding Bührle’s acquisitions from Nathan Katz see Lukas Gloor, «Emil Bührle: A Twentieth-Century Modern Art Collection», in The Emil Bührle Collection, History, Full Catalogue, and 70 Masterpieces, Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.), Munich 2021, pp. 100–106.
10Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 159.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich