Emil Bührle Collection

Edgar Degas

Ludovic Lepic and His Daughters

ca. 1871

Ludovic Lepic et ses filles

Oil on canvas

65 x 81 cm

Lemoisne 272

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, 4 vol., Paris, 1946-1949.

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Provenance

1The estate of the artist Paris • 1917–1918 Catalogue des tableaux modernes […] faisant partie de la collection Edgar Degas […], (sale cat.) Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15–16 November 1918, no. 14, as «Ecole moderne, Portraits (Homme et deux enfants)».

2Galerie Fiquet Paris • 1918 Acquired at the above sale for FF 9.100, The Private Collection of Edgar Degas, A Summary Catalogue, (exh. cat.) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1997–98, no. D.3.

3Paul Brame Paris • 1938 Archive Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York, Inventory Card no. 3943; List of «Paintings held in the name of Paul Rosenberg in the U.S. for himself and his family (purchased before September 20, 1940)», with Entry «Degas, C. de Lepic & filles», identifying Paul Brame as the vendor, indicating a purchase date of 1938 and a price of $ 14.000. AStEGB, E-mail-message from Sylvie Brame, Galerie Brame & Lorenceau, Paris, to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, 20 February 2008, states that the painting does not figure in the books of the gallery, hints however at the possibility that Paul Brame acted as an intermediary only.

4Paul Rosenberg Paris & New York • 1938–1952 Loan Exhibition of 21 Masterpieces by 7 Great Masters, Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York 1948, no. 7, describes the painting as «lent anonymously»; AStEGB, Letter from Paul Rosenberg, New York, to Emil Bührle, 22 September 1952, accompanying individual invoices for 10 pictures which Bührle has acquired from him, including Degas, Ludovic Lepic.

5Emil Bührle Zurich • 2 December 1952 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for $ 55.000 minus a 10% discount ($ 5.500) = $ 49.500, AStEGB, Invoice from Paul Rosenberg, New York, made out to Emil Bührle, 22 September 1952; Letter from Paul Rosenberg, New York, to Emil Bührle, 2 December 1952, acknowledging receipt of $ 157.500 for 3 paintings from the group of 10, including Degas, Ludovic Lepic; Correspondence regarding the import of the 10 pictures to Switzerland, 12 January 1956–22 June 1956, the Degas figuring in the papers as «19th Century French School, Father and Daughters», with a declared value of $ 4.500.

6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 36.

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

Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son œuvre, 4 vol., Paris, 1946-1949.

Exhibitions

1947Works by Edgar Degas Cleveland Museum of Art • Cleveland (Ohio) • 1947 no. 16.

1948Loan Exhibition of 21 Masterpieces by 7 Great Masters Paul Rosenberg & Co.• New York • 1948 no. 7.

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. 158.

1958Französische Malerei von Manet bis Matisse aus der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle/Zürich Nationalgalerie der ehemals Staatlichen Museen, Schloss Charlottenburg • Berlin • 1958 no. 20. 

1958Hauptwerke der Sammlung Emil Georg Bührle–Zürich Haus der Kunst • Munich • 1958–59 no. 41. 

1959De Géricault à Matisse, Chefs-d’œuvre français des collections suisses Petit Palais • Paris • 1959 no. 43.

1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh • National Gallery, London • 1961 no. 22.

1964Chefs-d’oeuvre des collections suisses de Matisse à Picasso Exposition Nationale Suisse (Palais de Beaulieu) • Lausanne • 1964 no. 5. 

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. 32.

1994Degas, Die Portraits Kunsthaus Zurich • Kunsthalle Tübingen • 1994–95 no. 110.

201621, rue La Boétie Musée La Boverie • Liège • 2016–17 no. 21.

2017Chefs-d’oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l’Hermitage •  Lausanne • 2017 no. 23.

2017Gefeiert & verspottet, Französische Malerei 1820–1880 Kunsthaus Zurich • 2017–18 no. 37.

2018Bührle Collection: Impressionist Masterpieces from the E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich (Switzerland) National Art Center, Tokyo • Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka • Nagoya City Art Museum • 2018 no. 30.

2019La Collection Emil Bührle Musée Maillol • Paris • 2019 no. 24.

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. 272 (ill.; 2New York 1984).

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

1959Raymond Cogniat Le siècle des impressionnistes Paris • 1959 • p. 60 (ill.).

1962Jean Sutherland Boggs Portraits by Degas Berkeley & Los Angeles • 1962 • pp. 93 (n. 16), 120.

1963René Wehrli «Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, French Nineteenth-Century Paintings» in Great Private Collections Douglas Cooper (ed.) •​​​​​​​ New York •​​​​​​​ 1963 •​​​​​​​ p. 220.

1969Schätze aus Museen und Sammlungen in Zürich Zurich •​​​​​​​ 1969 •​​​​​​​ pp. 298–299 (ill.).

1970Fiorella Minervino • Franco Russoli L’opera completa di Degas Milan •​​​​​​​ 1970 •​​​​​​​ no. 259 (ill.; 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. 46 (ill.; 21986).

1979Hans A. Lüthy «The E.G. Bührle Foundation» in Apollo (110) •​​​​​​​ 1979 •​​​​​​​ p. 325 (ill.).

1986Denys Sutton Edgar Degas, Life and Work New York •​​​​​​​ 1986 •​​​​​​​ p. 91, fig. 77 (French edition: Degas, Vie et œuvre, Fribourg, p. , fig. 77 •​​​​​​​ German edition: Degas, Leben und Werk, Fribourg & Munich, p. 87, fig. 77).

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern •​​​​​​​ 1994 •​​​​​​​ p. 13 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).

1995Albert Kostenevich Hidden Treasures Revealed, Impressionist and Other Important French Paintings Preserved by The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg New York •​​​​​​​ 1995 •​​​​​​​ pp. 70–71, fig. 3 (German edition: Albert Kostenewitsch, Aus der Eremitage, Verschollene Meisterwerke deutscher Privatsammlungen, Munich 1995).

1997Colin Bailey Renoir’s Portraits, Impressions of an Age New Haven & London •​​​​​​​ 1997 •​​​​​​​ p. 54.

1998Christian Bührle «Die Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle in Zürich» in Die Kunst zu sammeln, Schweizer Kunstsammlungen seit 1848 • L’art de collectionner, Collections d’art en Suisse depuis 1848 • L’arte di collezionare, Collezioni svizzere d’arte dal 1848 Swiss Institute for Art Research (ed.) •​​​​​​​ Zurich •​​​​​​​ 1998 •​​​​​​​ p. 136.

2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 •​​​​​​​ Conegliano & Zurich •​​​​​​​ 2005 •​​​​​​​ no. 48 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog •​​​​​​​ Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo). ▪

2007Werner Hofmann Degas und sein Jahrhundert Munich •​​​​​​​ 2007 •​​​​​​​ pp. 110–111, fig. 80.

2011André Dombrowski «History, Memory, and Instantaneity in Edgar Degas’s Place de la Concorde» in Art Bulletin (93) •​​​​​​​ 2011 •​​​​​​​ p. 200, fig. 7.

2012Werner Hofmann «Edgar Degas, Graf Lepic und seine Töchter, Place de la Concorde», in Die historische Sammlung Otto Gerstenberg vol. 1 Essays Berlin & Ostfildern •​​​​​​​ 2012 •​​​​​​​ p. 169.

2012Albert Kostenevich Edgar Degas, Place de la Concorde, Notes on a Painting [in Russian] •​​​​​​​ (exh. cat.) •​​​​​​​ State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg •​​​​​​​ 2012–13 •​​​​​​​ p. 74 (ill.).

2016Lukas Gloor «Emil Bührle and Paul Rosenberg: A business relationship at the dawn of the post-war era» in 21, rue La Boétie, based on the book by Anne Sinclair (exh. cat.) •​​​​​​​ Musée La Boverie, Liège •​​​​​​​ 2016–17 •​​​​​​​ p. 137 (French edition: «Emil Bührle et Paul Rosenberg: Une relation d’affaires au lendemain de la guerre», in 21, rue La Boétie, D’après le livre d’Anne Sinclair; 2nd edition: [exh. cat.] Musée Maillol, Paris 2017, p. 139).

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. 252 (ill.).