Emil Bührle Collection

Gustave Courbet

Portrait of a Man

1849/50

Portrait d'homme

Oil on canvas

70 x 60 cm

Signed lower right: Courbet

Fernier 71

Vergrössern

Drucken

Provenance

1Jules Luquet Paris Fernier no. 71.

2Dr. G. Potel Lille • 1899 Charles Léger, Courbet, Paris 1929, p. 49.

3Salavin Paris • by 1952/53 AStEGB, Letter from Dr. Walter Drack [curator of the Bührle Collection] to F. K. Lloyd, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London, 3 August 1955, asking for information regarding the provenance of the painting and referring to a label (now lost) on the back of the painting: «Smlg. Salavin, Paris»; Gustave Courbet 1819–1877, (exh. cat.) Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London 1953, no. 6 refers to a private collector in Paris as the lender.

4Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London • by 1955 AStEGB, Inventory Card Courbet, Un Chasseur; an information given by Marlborough International Fine Art to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, 24 August 2012, suggests as a possible intermediary in Paris Alphonse Bellier, commissaire-priseur.

5Emil Bührle Zurich • 27 June 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for £ 7.000 (= CHF 84.000), AStEGB, Price list, handwritten by Emil Bührle and containing the names of five artists, including Courbet; the Price list was drawn up for a group of mostly Old Master paintings whose purchase Bührle was negotiating with Frank Lloyd from Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London; that part of the purchase came to £ 66.000 (= CHF 792.000) and included Boucher’s Deux paysannes, Goya’s Procession, and Ochtervelt’s Backgammon Players (Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 122, 143, 155); AStEGB, Entry Book II, 27 June 1955, lists part of these paintings, along with a group of four drawings by Picasso which Bührle acquired around the same time.

6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 no. 24

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

Exhibitions

1949Moustache, Portraits d’Hommes du XVI e Siècle à nos Jours Maison Marcel Rochas • Paris • 1949–50 no. 17.

1952Chefs-d’œuvre des collections parisiennes, Peintures et dessins de l’école française du XIXe siècle Musée Carnavalet • Paris • 1952–53 no. 21.

1953Gustave Courbet 1819–1877 Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. • London • 1953 no. 6.

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. 316.

2007Gustave Courbet Grand Palais, Paris • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York • Musée Fabre, Montpellier • 2007–08 no. 33 (exhibited in Paris and Montpellier only).

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. 17.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 24.

2016Von Dürer bis van Gogh, Sammlung Bührle trifft Wallraf Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud • Cologne • 2016–17 no. 40.

2017Chefs-d’oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l’Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 8.

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. 15.

References

1912Jules-Antoine Castagnary «Fragments d’un livre sur Courbet» in Gazette des Beaux-Arts (54/1) • 1912 • 1p. 22 (ill.).

1929Charles Léger Courbet Paris • 1929 • p. 49.

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 24 (ill.; 21986).

1977Robert Fernier La vie et l’œuvre de Gustave Courbet, Catalogue raisonné vol. 1 Peintures 1819–1865 Lausanne & Paris • 1977 • no. 71 (ill.).

1985Pierre Courthion L’opera completa di Courbet Milan • 1985 • no. 65 (ill.; French edition: Tout l’œuvre peint de Courbet, Paris 1987; 21996).

1997The Private Collection of Edgar Degas (exh. cat.) • Metropolitan Museum of Art • New York • 1997 • pp. 5, 66, n. 14.

2005Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol.3  • Conegliano & Zurich 2005 • no. 40 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).

2007Thomas Schlesser Courbet, Un peintre à contre-temps Paris • 2007 • p. 28 (ill. left).

2012Michèle Haddad À la chasse avec Gustave Courbet Besançon • 2012 • p. 19, fig. 9.

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. 446 (ill.).