Emil Bührle Collection

- Rembrandt

Hunting Still Life with Bittern

Oil on canvas

120 x 91.5 cm

Inscribed lower left: Rembrandt f. 163(?)

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Provenance

1Private collection Ireland AStEGB, Invoice from M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, made out to Emil Bührle, 26 May 1954, for two paintings, Rembrandt, Still Life with Dead Game, and Salomon Ruysdael, Riverbank with a Village (now Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 163), with detailed provenance, exhibition, and publication references; quotes from Die holländische Kritik by Hofstede de Groot (1922) who identifies one Mr. Anthony Reyre as having discovered the picture in Ireland.

2Anthony Reyre London Invoice as above, n. (1).

3Kunsthandels-A.G. Lucerne • by 1922 Invoice as above, n. (1), mentions Fritz Steinmeyer, Lucerne, as the seller of the picture; Steinmeyer was a business partner of the Munich art dealer Julius Böhler who managed Böhler’s Lucerne branch, the Kunsthandels-A.G.

4John D. McIlhenny Philadelphia • by 1922 until [d.] 1925 Invoice as above, n. (1).

4Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia • 1925–1944 Getty Research Institute, Santa Monica (California) Knoedler Gallery Archive, Stock Book 9, p. 66, no. A2750.

5M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. New York • 1944–1954 Acquired from the above on 2 August 1944, Stock Book as above, n. (5); the stock book indicates a half share of $ 10.000 taken by the Knoedler Gallery.

6Emil Bührle Zurich • 27 May 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for a total of $ 125.000 for the Rembrandt and the Ruysdael, Invoice as above, n. (1), and AStEGB, Letter from Charles R. Henschel [Head of M. Knoedler & Co., Inc.], New York, to Emil Bührle, 27 May 1954, acknowledging receipt of the check; Getty Research Institute, Santa Monica (California) Knoedler Gallery Archive, Stock Book 10, p. 20, no. A2750.

7Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 158.

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

Exhibitions

1925Great Dutch Masterpieces Institute of Arts • Detroit • 1925 no. 12.

1930Paintings by Rembrandt Institute of Arts • Detroit • 1930 no. 29.

1935Rembrandt Rijksmuseum • Amsterdam • 1935 no. 8.

1938Dutch Painting in the Seventeenth Century Rhode Island School of Design • Providence (Rhode Island) • 1938 no. 38.

1945Dutch Masters of the 17th Century Knoedler Galleries • New York • 1945 no. 12.

1945Still Life and Flower Paintings Baltimore Museum of Art • 1945 no. 19.

1947Great Paintings Fine Arts Center • Colorado Springs (Colorado) • 1947 no. 7.

1947Paintings by Frans Hals and Rembrandt Los Angeles County Museum of Art • Los Angeles • 1947 no. 15.

1948History of Still Life and Flower Painting Montclair Art Museum • Montclair (New Jersey) • 1948 no. 9.

1950Seventeen Masters of Painting Museum of Fine Arts • Houston • 1950 no. 12

1951Rembrandt Art Gallery Toronto • 1951 no. 4.

1951Four Centuries of European Painting Dallas Museum of Fine Arts • 1951 no. 33.

1952Exhibition of Masterpieces Honoring Hazel Barker King Allen Memorial Art Museum • Oberlin (Ohio) • 1952 no. 7.

1952Treasures of Dutch Old Maters, Landscape, Portraits, Still Life, Interiors and genre of the 17th century Winnipeg Art Gallery • Winnipeg (Manitoba) • 1952 no. 23.

1953An Exhibition of Old Masters Featuring Velasquez, Titian, Rembrandt, Hals, Turner, Gainsborough Fort Worth Art Center • Fort Worth (Texas) • 1953.

1953Holländer des 17. Jahrhunderts Kunsthaus Zurich • 1953 no. 109.

1955Alte Meister aus der Sammlung E. Bührle, Zürich Jegenstorf • 1955 no.16.

1956Rembrandt Tentoonstelling ter herdenking van de geboorte van Rembrandt op 15 Juli 1606 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam • Museum Boijmans van Beunigen, Rotterdam• 1956 (exhibited in Rotterdam only) • not in cat.

1959Die Handschrift des Künstlers 13. Ruhrfestspiele (Kunsthalle Recklinghausen) • 1959 no. 255.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 158.

2011Von Schönheit und Tod, Tierstillleben von der Renaissance bis zur Moderne Staatliche Kunsthalle • Karlsruhe • 2011–12 no. 39.

References

1906Cornelis Hofstede de Groot Die Urkunden über Rembrandt The Hague • 1906 • p. 209, no. 348 (?).

1915Cornelis Hofstede de Groot Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts vol. 6 • Esslingen/Neuss & Paris • 1915 • p. 406, no. 986 (English edition: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the 17th Century, London 1916, p. 444, no. 986; 2Cambridge 1976).

1922Cornelis Hofstede de Groot Die holländische Kritik der jetzigen Rembrandt-Forschung und neuest wiedergefundene Rembrandtbilder Stuttgart & Berlin • 1922 • pp. 37–38.

1923Wilhelm Rudolf Valentiner Rembrandt, Wiedergefundene Gemälde 1910–1922 Stuttgart • 21923 • no. 49, fig. 44.

1926Wilhelm Weisbach Rembrandt Berlin & Leipzig • 1926 • pp. 612–613.

1931Wilhelm Rudolf Valentiner Rembrandt Paintings in America New York • 1931 • no. 66 (ill.).

1935Abraham Bredius Rembrandt, Gemälde Vienna • 1935 • no. 455 (ill.; Dutch edition: Rembrandt Schilderijen, Utrecht & Vienna 1935 • English edition: The Paintings of Rembrandt, Vienna & London 1937).

1935Ernst Scheyer «Die Rembrandt-Ausstellung in Amsterdam» in Pantheon (16) • 1935 • pp. 291, 293 (ill.).

1936H. P. Bremmer (ed.) Beeldende Kunst (23) • 1936/37 • no. 69 (ill.).

1947Wilhelm Martin Paintings by Rembrandt New York • 1947 • fig. 35.

1948Jakob Rosenberg Rembrandt Cambridge (Massachusetts) • 1948 • vol. 1 • pp. 154–155.

1964Jakob Rosenberg Rembrandt London • 1964 • p. 265.

1966Kurt Bauch Rembrandt, Gemälde Berlin • 1966 • no. 559 (ill.).

1969Abraham Bredius Rembrandt, The Complete Edition of the Paintings Horst Gerson (ed.) • London • 1969 • p. 364 (ill.), no. 455.

1969Giovanni Arpino • Paolo Lecaldano L’opera pittorica completa di Rembrandt Milan • 1969 • no. 202 (ill.; 21973; English edition: Paolo Lecaldano, Gregory Martin, The Complete Paintings of Rembrandt, New York 1969; German edition: Das gemalte Gesamtwerkt von Rembrandt, Lucerne etc. 1969 • French edition: Jacques Foucart, Paolo Lecaldano, Tout l’œuvre peint de Rembrandt, Paris 1971 • Spanish edition: La obra pictórica completa de Rembrandt, Barcelona 1971; 21983).

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle / Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle / Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 164 (ill.; 21986), no. 164.

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • pp. 16–17 (ill.; English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).

2004Catherine B. Scallen Rembrandt, Reputation, and the Practice of Connoisseurship Amsterdam • 2004 • p. 372 (n. 86).

2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 19 (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. 383 (ill.).