Thunderstorm over Dordrecht · Aelbert Cuyp · Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle

Aelbert Cuyp

Thunderstorm over Dordrecht

ca. 1645

Oil on wood

77.5 x 107 cm

Signed lower right: A. Cuyp

Chong 61

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Provenance

1Mattheus vanden Broucke Chong, pp. 308, 574, no. 61.

2Elisabeth Francken by 1729 Widow of the above, Chong, no. 61.

3Margarita vander Burch Chong, no. 61.

4George Montague-Dunk, 2^nd Earl of Halifax by 1770 until [d.] 1771 Chong, no. 61.

5The estate of the 2^nd Earl of Halifax 1771–1782 Sale Earl of Halifax, Christie’s London, 19–20 April 1782, no. 67.

6William Nisbet 1782–1802 Acquired at the above sale, on 20 April 1782, for £ 63, Chong no. 61; E-mail message from Christie’s London, to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, 14 January 2008, confirming that the painting was bought at the second day of the sale by W. Nisbet; The Catalogue of the Capital Collection of Uncommonly Choice Paintings, The Genuine Property of a Gentleman […], (sale cat.) Peter Coxe, Burrell & Foster, London (25 May 1802), no. 69.

7Comyns 1802 Bought at the above sale for £ 79.16, Chong no. 61.

8Wilbraham Tollemache, 6^th Earl of Dysart Ham House • Richmond • by 1820 Chong no. 61.

9Sir Lyonel Tollemache, 4^th Baronet Ham House • Richmond • until [d.] 1952 By descent; for the various inventories at Ham House Chong, p. 310, n. 1; (Mrs.) Charles Roundell, Ham House, Its History and Art Treasures, London 1904, vol. 2, p. 105.

10The estate of Sir Lyonel Tollemache 1952–1953 Catalogue of Old Pictures and Drawings from Various Sources, (sale cat.) Christie’s, London (19 June 1953), no. 42.

11Edward Speelman and Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London • 1953–1954 Sold for 25 guineas at the above sale, Chong no. 61; according to an information given by Mr. Anthony Speelman, London, son of Edward Speelman, to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, 8 January 2010, the painting was acquired jointly by Speelman and Marlborough; an ownership of Edward Speelman prior to the sale to Emil Bührle was confirmed by Marlborough International Fine Art on 24 August 2012.

12Emil Bührle Zurich • 23 January 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., with two paintings by Vlaminck and Vuillard (none of them in the Emil Bührle Collection today), for a total amount of CHF 254.100, AStEGB, Letter from Trafo, Anstalt für Handel und Finanz, Vaduz [Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London], signed by F. K. Lloyd, to Dr. O. Maurer [Secretary General of Oerlikon Bührle & Co.], Zurich, 18 January 1954, accompanying Invoice from Trafo, Anstalt für Handel und Finanz, Vaduz, made out to Emil Bührle, 18 January 1954, for the sum of CHF 254.100; Payment order, made by Emil Bührle, 22 January 1954, to Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, for the sum of CHF 254.100 to be transferred to Trafo, Vaduz, and Confirmation of payment from Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zürich, executed on 23 January 1954.

13Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 149.

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

Exhibitions

1955Alte Meister aus der Sammlung E. Bührle, Zürich Jegenstorf Castle • Jegenstorf (Bern) • 1955 no. 4.

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. 76.

1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 33.

1970Schok der Herkenning, Het Engelse landschap der Romantiek en zijn Hollandse Inspiratie Mauritshuis • The Hague • 1970–71 no. 6

1971Shock of Recognition, The Landscape of English Romanticism and the Dutch Seventeenth-Century School Tate Gallery • London • 1971 no. 54.

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. 4.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 149.

2016Von Dürer bis van Gogh, Sammlung Bührle trifft Wallraf Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud • Cologne • 2016–17 no. 2.

2019La Collection Emil Bührle Musée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 1.

References

1834John Smith A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters vol. 5 • London • 1834 • p. 307, no. 84.

1843Charles Robert Leslie Memoirs of the Life of John Constable Esq. R. A., Composed Chiefly of His Letters London • 1843 • p. 95 (letter of 6 September 1834; ²1845; and various later editions).

1904(Mrs.) Charles Roundell Ham House, Its History and Art Treasures London • 1904 • vol. 2, p. 105.

1908Cornelis Hofstede de Groot Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts vol. 2 • Esslingen/Neuss & Paris • 1908 • p. 56, no. 167a; p. 103, no. 358; p. 200, no. 708 (English edition: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London 1909; ²Cambridge 1976).

1927Horace Walpole «Horace Walpole’s journal of visits to country seats» in Walpole Society (16) • 1927/28 • p. 68 (entry of August 1770).

1955Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub «Der Blitz in der Kunst» in Atlantis (27) • 1955 • p. 84 (ill.).

1955Max Huggler «Alte Meister aus der Sammlung Bührle im Schloss Jegenstorf» in Schweizer Monatshefte (35) • 1955 • p. 266.

1959Denys Sutton «The Bührle Collection» in The Connoisseur (143) • 1959 • p. 146, fig. 2.

1965Ronald B. Beckett John Constable’s Correspondence vol. 3 The Correspondence with C. R. Leslie, R. A. Ipswich • 1965 • pp. 118–119 (letter of 6 September 1834).

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle / Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle / Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 194 (ill.;²1986).

1975Stephen Reiss Aelbert Cuyp London • 1975 • p. 55, fig. 4, no. 27 (ill.).

1987Peter C. Sutton «Introduction» in Masters of 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Painting (exh. cat.) • Museum of Fine Arts • Boston etc. • 1987–88 • p. 10, fig. 3.

1991Alan Chong «New dated works from Aelbert Cuyp’s earlier career» in Burlington Magazine (133) • 1991 • p. 610, fig. 50.

1992Alan Chong Aelbert Cuyp and the Meaning of Landscape (Diss.) • New York University • New York • 1992 • pp. 309–310, no. 61.

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • pp. 17–18 (ill.; English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).

1994Peter C. Sutton • John Loughman The Golden Age of Dutch Landscape Painting Fundación Collección Thyssen-Bornemisza • Madrid • 1994 • p. 246 (Spanish edition: El siglo de oro del paisaje holandés).

1995Evelyn Pritchard Ham House and Its Owners through Five Centuries Richmond Local History Society (ed.) • Richmond-upon-Thames • 1995 • p. 49.

2001Arthur K. Wheelock jr. Aelbert Cuyp London • 2001 • p. 114, fig. 1.

2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 5 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

2010Michael Taylor «Le peintre et le savant, La fabrique des images au siècle d’or de la peinture hollandaise» in La Fabrique des images, Visions du monde et formes de la représentation (exh. cat.) • Musée du quai Branly • Paris • 2010–11 • p. 104, fig. 62.

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. 341 (ill.).

2021Mark Evans «’That power which creates space›: Constable and Cuyp in The Light of Cuyp, Aelbert Cuyp & Gainsborough–Constable–Turner (exh. cat.) Dordrechts Museum • Dordrecht • 2021–22 • pp. 135–136, ill. 9.