«Hubert Robert» · Jean-Honoré Fragonard (attr.)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (attr.)

«Hubert Robert»

Oil on paper, on canvas

42.5 x 34 cm

Provenance

1Willibald Wolf Rudinoff Paris AStEGB, Invoice from Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, made out to Emil Bührle, 26 January 1952, for 3 paintings, including Fragonard, Hubert Robert, with provenance and exhibition history.

2Germain Seligman New York • by 1932 until 1952 Exhibition of French Art 1200–1900, (exh. cat.) Royal Academy of Arts, London 1932, no. 269.

3Emil Bührle Zurich • 20 February 1952 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above together with 2 other paintings for a total amount of $ 70.000, AStEGB, Letter from Germain Seligman, New York, to Emil Bührle, 26 January 1952; Letter from Germain Seligman, New York, to Emil Bührle, 20 February 1952, acknowledging receipt of $ 70.000 for 3 paintings, including Fragonard, Hubert Robert. See also File containing prices for 9 paintings, including Fragonard, Hubert Robert ($ 40.000), with hand-written annotation by Emil Bührle «Courbet, Fragonard, Ingres, 70’000 $».

4Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 131.

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

Exhibitions

1932Exhibition of French Art 1200–1900 Royal Academy of Arts • London • 1932 no. 269.

1933A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures, Lent from American Collections Art Institute of Chicago • 1933 no. 214.

1937Problems of Portraiture Phillips Collection • Washington D. C. • 1937–38

1940Masterpieces of Art, European & American Paintings 1500–1900 New York World’s Fair • New York • 1940 no. 200.

1954Fragonard Kunstmuseum Bern • 1954 no. 17.

1955Alte Meister aus der Sammlung E. Bührle, Zürich Jegenstorf Castle • Jegenstorf (Bern) • 1955 no. 40.

1955Schönheit des 18. Jahrhunderts Kunsthaus Zurich • 1955 no. 84.

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. 96.

References

1932Waldemar George «En marge de l’Exposition de Londres, Physionomie du portrait français» in La Renaissance (15) • 1932 • p. 34 (ill.).

1933Richard Hamann Geschichte der Kunst von der altchristlichen Zeit bis zur Gegenwart Berlin • 1933 • p. 731, fig. 911.

1937Emanuel Mervin Benson Problems of Portraiture, From Earliest Times to the Present Washington D.C. • 1937 • p. 19 (ill.).

1956Louis Réau Fragonard, Sa vie et son œuvre Brussels • 1956 • p. 174, fig. 99.

1972Daniel Wildenstein • Gabriele Mandel L’opera completa di Fragonard Milan • 1972 • no. 608 (ill.; German edition: Das Gesamtwerk des Fragonard, Lucerne & Zurich 1972).

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle / Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle / Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 3 (ill.;21986).

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 21 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).

2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 63 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

2013Jean-Pierre Cuzin • Isabelle Mayer-Michalon • François-André Vincent 1746–1816, Entre Fragonard et David Paris • 2013 • p. 298 (n. 314).

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. 223 (ill.).