The road around the watering pond at Marly-le-Roi, snowy weather · Alfred Sisley

Alfred Sisley

The road around the watering pond at Marly-le-Roi, snowy weather

1875

Route contournant l’Abreuvoir de Marly-le-Roi, temps de neige

Oil on canvas

46 x 55 cm

Signed lower right: Sisley

Brame/Lorenceau 204

Vergrössern

Drucken

Provenance

1Etienne Bignou Paris Brame/Lorenceau no. 204.

2Alex Reid & Lefèvre London Brame/Lorenceau no. 204.

3Paul Rosenberg Paris & New York • before 1939 until 1953 Acquired from the above, Archive Paul Rosenberg, New York, Inventory Notebook, September 1952, pp. 12–13, no. 4073.

4Confiscated by the «Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg» (ERR no. PR 167), turned over to Hermann Göring and transferred to Carinhall 1941 Nancy H. Yeide, Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, The Hermann Goering Collection, Dallas 2009, no. A1200.

5Hermann Göring (RM no. 1187) Carinhall • 1941–1945 Yeide, as above, n. (4).

6Recovered with Hermann Göring’s art collection at Berchtesgaden and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (no. 6123) 1945–1946 Yeide, as above, n. (4).

7Returned to Paris and restituted to Paul Rosenberg Paris • 23 May 1946 and New York • 19 November 1946 Yeide, as above, n. (4); Archive Paul Rosenberg Gallery, New York, Reference to Lenars Export Licence, 6 November 1949; taken over from Mr. & Mrs. Rosenberg’s private stock to the gallery stock for $ 6.750 on 19 May 1953, Inventory Notebook, September 1952, pp. 12–13; 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 Sisley Route de Saint-Germain, Marly.

8Emil Bührle Zurich • 19 May 1953 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for $ 10.000 minus a 10% discount ($ 1.000) = $ 9.000, AStEGB, Invoice from Paul Rosenberg, New York, made out to Emil Bührle, 22 September 1952; Letter from Emil Bührle to Paul Rosenberg, Zurich, 6 May 1953, accompanying a check for the amount of $ 50.400 in payment of 4 pictures, including Sisley, Route de Saint-Germain, Marly; 2 Receipts from Paul Rosenberg, 6 May 1953 and 21 May 1953, for the amount of $ 50.400; Receipt from Paul Rosenberg, 19 May 1953 for the amount of $ 9.000 for Sisley, Route de Saint-Germain, Marly; Correspondence regarding the import of the 10 pictures to Switzerland, 12 January 1956–22 June 1956, the Sisley figuring in the papers as «Marly», with a declared value of $ 6.000.

9Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 99.

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

Exhibitions

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. 198.

1961Masterpieces of French Painting from the Bührle Collection Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh• National Gallery, London• 1961 no. 27.

1990The Passionate Eye, Impressionist and Other Master Paintings from the Collection of Emil G. Bührle, Zurich, Catalogue of the Exhibition in Commemoration of the 100^th 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. 36.

1999Sisley und die Brücke von Hampton Court Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection • Zurich • 1999 no. 6.

2010Parigi, Gli anni meravigliosi, Impressionismo contro Salon Castel Sismondo • Rimini • 2010–11 no. 84.

2017Chefs-d’oeuvre de la collection Bührle, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh… Fondation de l’Hermitage • Lausanne • 2017 no. 15.

References

1959François Daulte Alfred Sisley, Catalogue Raisonné de l’œuvre peint Lausanne • 1959 • no. 156 (ill.).

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 58 (ill.; ²1986).

1980Sophie Monneret L’Impressionnisme et son époque, Dictionnaire international illustré vol. 2 • Paris • 1979 • p. 264 (entry for Sisley) • vol. 3, Paris 1980, p. 268.

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 46 • (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).

2005Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 98 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo). ▪

2009Nancy H. Yeide Beyond the Dreams of Avarice, The Hermann Goering Collection Dallas • 2009 • no. A1200 (ill.).

2017Lukas 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. 138, fig. 85 (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; 2^nd edition: [exh. cat.] Musée Maillol, Paris 2017, p. 140, fig. 81).

2021Sylvie Brame • François Lorenceau Alfred Sisley, Catalogue critique des peintures et des pastels Lausanne & Paris • 2021 • no. 204.