Provenance
1Thadée Natanson Paris Dauberville no. 636. According to the provenance given by Galerie Vallotton to Emil Bührle, the painting’s first owner would have been Alexandre rather than Thadée Natanson, AStEGB, Invoice from Galerie Vallotton, Lausanne, made out to Emil Bührle, 17 October 1951.
2Bernheim-Jeune Paris • 1914 Acquired from the above, Dauberville no. 636.
3Jules Strauss Paris • 1932 Catalogue des importants tableaux modernes, pastels, aquarelles, dessins par P. Bonnard […], Collection Jules Strauss, (sale cat.) Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (15 December 1932), no. 26. This provenance is given as the last before Galerie Vallotton in their invoice to Emil Bührle, as above, n. (1). A reference to «Collection ‹L’Art Moderne›, Lucerne» given in Dauberville, no. 636, as the owner previous to Strauss could not be verified, since the painting does not figure in the Catalogue des tableaux modernes, aquarelles, pastels, dessins […] provenant de la «Collection de L’Art Moderne», Lucerne (Suisse), (sale cat.) Hôtel Drouot, Paris (20 June 1935).
4Galerie Paul Vallotton Lausanne • by 1951 Invoice as above, n. (1), and AStEGB, Letter from Galerie Vallotton, Lausanne, to Walter Drack [curator of the Bührle Collection], 5 February 1952.
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 22 October 1951 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 25.000, Invoice as above, n. (1), and AStEGB, Letter from Dr. O. Maurer [Secretary General of Oerlikon Bührle & Co.] to Galerie Vallotton, Lausanne, 22 October 1951, confirming transfer of the above amount within the next days. Regarding an intermediary role of Dr. Fritz Nathan, Zurich, see AStEGB, Inventory Card Bonnard, Place de la Concorde, and Entry Book I, 15 October 1951.
6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 4.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich