The Toilet · Edouard Manet · Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle

Edouard Manet

The Toilet

ca. 1879

La Toilette

Pastel on canvas

55 x 46 cm

Signed with initials lower right: E. M.

Rouart/Wildenstein Pastels 25

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Provenance

1The estate of the artist Paris • 1883–1884 Catalogue de tableaux, pastels, études, dessins, gravures par Edouard Manet et dépendant de sa succession […], (sale cat.) Hôtel Drouot, Paris (4–5 February 1884), no. 98.

2Madame Edmond Bérend de Buffey Paris • 1884 Acquired at the above sale on 4 February 1884 for 550 francs, Merete Bodelsen, «Early Impressionist Sales 1874–1894 in the light of some unpublished ‘procès-verbaux’», in Burlington Magazine (110) 1968, p. 342, no. p. v. 25.

3Durand-Ruel Paris Bernheim-Jeune Paris Rouart/Wildenstein, (Pastels) no. 25.

4Monsieur Guyon Paris Rouart/Wildenstein, (Pastels) no. 25.

5Alphonse Kann St-Germain-en-Laye & London • by 1932 until [d.] 1948 Rouart/Wildenstein, (Pastels) no. 25.

6Confiscated by the «Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg» (ERR no. Ka 20), and taken over on behalf of Hermann Göring by Walter Andreas Hofer 12 July 1941 Nancy H. Yeide, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, The Hermann Goering Collection, Dallas 2009, no. D47.

7Traded to Galerie Fischer in exchange for works of art Lucerne • 2 October 1941 Yeide, as above; Esther Tisa Francini etc., Fluchtgut, Raubgut, Der Transfer von Kulturgütern in und über die Schweiz 1933–1945 und die Frage der Restitution, Unabhängige Expertenkommission Schweiz–Zweiter Weltkrieg (ed.), Zurich 2001, pp. 106 (n. 267), 286 (n. *1).

8Purchased by Emil Bührle Zurich • 18 April 1942 Purchased from Galerie Fischer for CHF 35.000, AStEGB, Letter from Emil Bührle to his lawyer, Dr. Walther Huber, Zurich, 22 August 1947. The figure corresponds to the amount which Bührle later claimed from Fischer in his lawsuit against the latter, and whilst Fischer refused to acknowledge obligation for reimbursement in principle, the figures as such where never questioned. Therefore, these figures defined the amounts which Fischer had to pay back to Bührle after the Federal Court came to the conclusion that Bührle had acquired the paintings in good faith, AStEGB, Swiss Federal Court, Kammer zur Beurteilung von Raubgutklagen/Chambre des actions en revendication de biens spoliés, Lausanne, Verdict of 5 July 1951 (typescript).

9Restituted to Alphonse Kann London • 5 July 1948 AStEGB, Swiss Federal Court, Kammer zur Beurteilung von Raubgutklagen/Chambre des actions en revendication de biens spoliés, Lausanne, Request for restitution of artworks by Alphonse Kann, London, vs. Emil Bührle, Zurich, Verdict of 5 July 1948 (typescript), stating that Bührle accepts restitution of 3 artworks to Kann, including Manet, Toilette.

10The estate of Alphonse Kann London & Paris 1948–1951 AStEGB, 2 Records with handwritten notes by Bührle, concerning two visits of Maître J. Metthey, Paris, acting on behalf of the heirs of Alphonse Kann, at Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon Bührle & Co., 25 January 1951 and 15 February 1951.

11Repurchased from the estate of Alphonse Kann by Emil Bührle Zurich • 3 February 1951 with Bührle until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired through Maître J. Metthey, Paris, along with two paintings by Degas for £ 24.000 altogether, Records as above, n. 10. On the first record, Bührle notes that the asking price of the Kann heirs is ca. 30.000 £ for the 3 works Degas, Madame Camus, Degas, Danseuses (Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 32, 35) and the pastel by Manet. A handwritten note by Bührle attached to the second record states that Metthey has accepted £ 24.000 for the lot on 3^rd February 1951.

12Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 65.

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

Exhibitions

1880La Vie moderne Galerie de la Gazette • Bvd. des Italiens • Paris • 1880.

1928Exposition d’œuvres de Manet au profit des «Amis du Luxembourg» Galerie Bernheim-Jeune • Paris • 1928 no. 14.

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. 149.

2002Edouard Manet und die Impressionisten Staatsgalerie Stuttgart • 2002–03 no. 63.

2005Manet Complesso del Vittoriano • Rome • 2005–06 no. 112.

2006Eros in der Kunst der Moderne Fondation Beyeler • Riehen • 2006–07 p. 27 Kunstforum Vienna • 2007 p. 25.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 65.

2011Baden Museum Langmatt • Baden 2011 p. 67.

2018Pastels du 16^e au 21^e siècle Fondation de l’Hermitage • Lausanne • 2018 no. 55.

References

1902Théodore Duret Histoire d’Edouard Manet et de son œuvre, Avec un catalogue des peintures et des pastels Paris • 1902 • (Pastels) • no. 62 (²1909, ³1919, ⁴1926; German edition: Edouard Manet, Sein Leben und seine Kunst, Berlin 1910 • English edition: Manet and the French Impressionists, London & Philadelphia 1910; ²2009).

1912Julius Meier-Graefe Edouard Manet Munich • 1912 • p. 326.

1926Etienne Moreau-Nélaton Manet raconté par lui-même Paris • 1926 • vol. 2 • p. 68, fig. 273.

1930Paul Fierens «Edouard Manet» in L’Art et les artistes (no. 110) • 1930 • p. 16 (ill.).

1931Adolphe Tabarant Manet, Histoire catalographique Paris • 1931 • Pastels no. 10.

1932Paul Jamot • Georges Wildenstein Manet Paris • 1932 • vol. 1, no. 421 • vol. 2, fig. 238.

1932René Huyghes «Manet peintre» in L’Amour de l’art (13) • 1932 • fig. 74.

1930Paul Fierens «Edouard Manet» in L’art et les artistes (no. 110) • 1930 • p. 11 (ill.).

1938Robert Rey Manet Paris • 1938 • p. 148 (ill.).

1941Gotthard Jedlicka Edouard Manet Erlenbach/Zurich • 1941 • pp. 347, 351 (ill.), 411 (n. 25).

1947Michel Florisoone Manet Monaco • 1947 • p. 78 (ill.).

1947Adolphe Tabarant Manet et ses œuvres Paris • 1947 • p. 321, fig. 463.

1967Sandra Orienti • Marcello Venturi L’opera pittorica di Edouard Manet Milan • 1967 • fig. 62, no. 244 (ill.; English edition: Sandra Orienti, Phoebe Pool, The Complete Paintings of Manet, New York 1967 • German edition: Das gemalte Werk von Edouard Manet, Lucerne etc. 1967, fig. 64 • French edition: Denis Rouart, Sandra Orienti, Tout l’oeuvre peint d’Edouard Manet, Paris 1970, fig. 54, no. 245 [ill.]).

1968Merete Bodelsen «Early Impressionist Sales 1874–1894 in the light of some unpublished ‘procès-verbaux’» in Burlington Magazine (110) • 1968 • p. 342, no. p. v. 25.

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 35 (ill.; ²1986).

1975Denis Rouart • Daniel Wildenstein Edouard Manet, Catalogue raisonné Lausanne & Paris • 1975 • vol. 2 Pastels, aquarelles et dessins no. 25 (ill.).

2001Esther Tisa Francini etc. Fluchtgut, Raubgut, Der Transfer von Kulturgütern in und über die Schweiz 1933–1945 und die Frage der Restitution Unabhängige Expertenkommission Schweiz–Zweiter Weltkrieg (ed.) • Zurich • 2001 • pp. 106 (n. 267), 286 (n. *1), 509.

2005Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 77 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

2006Sidel Maria Søndergaard • Tea Baark Mairey «Like a Quivering between Things» in Women in Impressionism, From Mythical Feminine to Modern Woman (exh. cat.) • Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek • Copenhagen • 2006–07 • p. 255, fig. 223.

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. 188 (ill.).