The Backgammon Players · Jacob Ochtervelt · Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle

Jacob Ochtervelt

The Backgammon Players

1667/69

Oil on wood

59 x 46.5 cm

Donahue 42

Vergrössern

Drucken

Provenance

1Jan Gildemeester Jansz Amsterdam • by 1794/95–[d.] 1799 The picture is represented in a painting executed by Adriaan de Lelie in 1794/95 and showing the picture gallery in the house of Jan Gildemeester Jansz at Herengracht 475 in Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), C. J. de Bruyn Kops, «De Amsterdamse verzamelaar Jan Gildemeester Jansz», in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum (13) 1965, pp. 79–114.

2Jurrians ca. 1817 Sale Jurrians, v.d. Schley, Roos, De Vries, Amsterdam (28 August 1817), no. 64, Donahue no. 42.

3De Vries Donahue no. 42.

4J. Ancher ca. 1847 Sale J. Ancher, De Vries, Roos, Amsterdam (6 April 1847), no. 83, Donahue no. 42.

5Schuller Donahue no. 42.

6Van Doelen Groethe Donahue no. 42.

7H. E. ten Cate Almelo Donahue no. 42.

8Firma D. Katz Dieren • by 1935/37 Vermeer, Oorsprong en invloed, Fabritius, de Hooch, de Witte, (exh. cat.) Museum Boymans, Rotterdam 1935, no. 73, fig. 116; Eduard Plietzsch, «Jacob Ochtervelt», in Pantheon (20) 1937, p. 370, n. 1 (right).

9Art Trade London • by 1955 According to an information given by Marlborough International Fine Art to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, 24 August 2012, the painting had been acquired from an London Old Master dealer prior to its sale to Emil Bührle.

10Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London • by 1955 AStEGB, Entry Book II, 27 June 1955.

11Emil Bührle Zurich • 27 June 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for £ 6.200 (= CHF 74.400), AStEGB, Price List, handwritten by Emil Bührle and containing the names of five artists, including Ochtervelt; the Price List was drawn up for a group of Old Master paintings whose purchase Bührle was negotiating with Frank Lloyd from Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London; that part of the purchase came to £ 66.000 (= CHF 792.000) and included Boucher’s Deux paysannes, Courbet’s Portrait of a Man, and Goya’s Procession (Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 122, 24, 143); AStEGB, Entry Book II, 27 June 1955, lists part of these paintings, along with a group of four drawings by Picasso which Bührle acquired around the same time.

12Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 155.

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

Exhibitions

1935Vermeer, Oorsprong en invloed, Fabritius, de Hooch, de Witte Museum Boymans • Rotterdam • 1935 no. 73.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 155.

References

1937Eduard Plietzsch «Jacob Ochtervelt» in Pantheon (20) • 1937 • p. 370, n. 1 (right).

1960Eduard Plietzsch Holländische und flämische Maler des XVII. Jahrh. Leipzig • 1960 • p. 66, n. 1.

1965C. J. de Bruyn Kops «De Amsterdamse verzamelaar Jan Gildemeester Jansz.» in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum (13) • 1965 • p. 82, fig. 8.

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle / Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle / Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 157 (ill.; ²1986).

1979Susan Donahue Kuretsky The Paintings of Jacob Ochtervelt (1634–1682), With Catalogue Raisonné Oxford • 1979 • pp. 18, 71, 139, fig. 48, no. 42.

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 18 (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. 16 (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. 448 (ill.).