Study for «Madame Camus at the Piano» · Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas

Study for «Madame Camus at the Piano»

1869

Etude de bras et de mains ("Madame Camus au Piano")

Pastel on paper

43.5 x 32.5 cm

Studio stamp lower left

Lemoisne 211

Vergrössern

Drucken

Provenance

1The estate of the artist Paris • 1917–1918 Catalogue des tableaux, pastels et dessins par Edgar Degas et provenant de son atelier (2^e vente), Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (11–13 December 1918), no. 243/1^o (ill.).

2René Degas Paris • 1918 Acquired at the above sale for FF 1.550, Annotated copy of the above sale catalogue at the Musée d’Orsay (Documentation), Paris.

3Alphonse Kann St-Germain-en-Laye & London • by 1931 until [d.] 1948 Degas, Portraitiste, sculpteur, (exh. cat.) Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris 1931, no. 122.

4Confiscated by the «Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg» (ERR no. Ka 1072), considered for possible exchange, but remained in Paris 1940–44 Barch Koblenz, B 323 273, ERR Inventar-Liste Kann, Alphons, St-Germain-en-Laye, October 1940/7 March 1941, inventoried 10 September 1942, p. 247; Archives des musées nationaux (Louvre), Paris, List Alph. Kann [1944], p. 2, Ka 1072.

5Restituted to Alphonse Kann London • 11 July 1947 Archives of the MAEE, La Courneuve, Dossier Kann, Resitution du 11 juillet 1947, Œuvres récupérés en France, p. 3; Archives des musées nationaux (Louvre), Paris, Receipt («Reçu de la Direction des Musées de France les tableaux ci-après désignés provenant de la collection de M. Alphonse Kann», typoscript), signed M^re Bokanowski [procureur des héritiers d’Alphonse Kann] and dated 22/X/48 and 9/XI/48, p. 1, no. Ka 1072 («Degas, Etude de main, pastel»).

6Charles Weil Paris • by 1951 Nephew of the above, AStEGB, Letter from Charles Weil, Paris, to Emil Bührle, 16 July 1951, offering two studies for the portrait of Mme Camus, and Letter from Charles Weil, Paris, to Emil Bührle, 29 April 1952, confirming that the two pastels sold to Bührle are from his uncle’s collection.

7Emil Bührle Zurich • 14 November 1951 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, together with another pastel from the same series (Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 30) for FF 400.000, AStEGB, Invoice from Charles Weil, Paris, made out to Emil Bührle, 1 September 1951, and Correspondence regarding the purchase and the import of the two pastels, 15 August 1951–12 November 1951, the last letter offering an apology for the delayed payment; Payment order by Emil Bührle to Credit Swiss, Zurich, 14 November 1951, ordering payment of FF 391.500 to Charles Weill, Paris (shipment expenses of FF 8.500 being subtracted from the total amount of FF 400.000).

8Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collectio Zurich • 1960 Inv. 31.

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

Exhibitions

1931Degas, Portraitiste, sculpteur Orangerie des Tuileries • Paris • 1931 no. 122.

1951Degas Kunstmuseum Bern • 1951–52 no. 90.

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. 157.

1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 38.

1990The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, Catalogue of the Exhibition in Commemoration of the 100th Birthday of the Collector Emil G. Bührle National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. • Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal • Yokohama Museum of Art • Royal Academy of Arts, London • 1990–91 no. 30.

1994Degas, Die Portraits Kunsthaus Zurich • Kunsthalle Tübingen • 1994–95 no. 102.

2004Degas, Classico e moderno Complesso del Vittoriano • Rome • 2004–05 no. 21.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 31.

2018Pastels du 16^e au 21^e siècle Fondation de l’Hermitage • Lausanne • 2018 no. 45.

References

1946Paul-André Lemoisne Degas et son œuvre vol. 2 Peintures et pastels 1853–1882, Notices et reproductions du no. 1 au no. 716bis Paris • 1946 • no. 211 (ill.; ²New York 1984)

1958Max Huggler «Die Sammlung Bührle im Zürcher Kunsthaus» in Werk (45) • 1958 • p. 371 (as «watercolour»).

1970Fiorella Minervino • Franco Russoli L’opera completa di Degas Milan • 1970 • cf. no. 245 (²1978; German edition: Das Gesamtwerk von Degas, Lucerne etc. 1970 • Spanish edition: La obra pictórica completa de Degas, Barcelona 1972 • French edition: Jacques Lassaigne, Fiorella Minervino, Tout l’œuvre peint de Degas, Paris 1974; ²1988).

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

1995Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 24 (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. 51 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

2019Degas à l’Opéra (exh.cat.) • Musée d’Orsay • Paris • 2019 • pp. 78–82, fig. 75 (English edition: Degas at the Opéra, [exh. cat.] National Gallery of Art • Washington • 2020).

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. 210 (ill.).