Emil Bührle Collection

Gerard ter Borch

The Visit

ca. 1660

Oil on canvas

91.5 x 107 cm

Gudlaugsson 149

Sturla J. Gudlaugsson, Katalog der Gemälde Gerard ter Borchs, The Hague, 1960.

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Provenance

1Private collection Amsterdam • by 1833 John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, vol. 4, London 1833, p. 140, no. 76.

2Baron Edmond de Rothschild Paris • [d.] 1934 Gudlaugsson, no. 149; AStEGB, Letter from S. J. Gudlaugsson, Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague, to Emil Bührle, 30 June 1955, confirming the painting’s authenticity and stating its provenance as «Edouard» [recte: Edmond] de Rothschild, followed by Maurice de Rothschild.

3Baron Maurice de Rothschild Paris & Pregny • Canton of Geneva Letter as above; Bundesarchiv Koblenz, MCCP Restitution File, Central Collecting Point München, B323/609.

4Confiscated and transferred to «Sonderauftrag Linz» via the German Embassy in Paris (no. 2729) 1943 MCCP Restitution File as above, n. (3).

5Recovered and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point (no. 1672) 30 June 1945 MCCP Restitution File as above, n. (3).

6Returned to Paris 27 March 1946 and restituted to Maurice de Rothschild Pregny • Canton of Geneva MCCP Restitution File as above, n. (3); Gudlaugsson, no. 149; AStEGB, Letter from Dr. A. B. de Vries, Director of the Mauritshuis, The Hague, to Emil Bührle, 29 June 1955, with mention that he had seen the picture with Maurice de Rothschild at Pregny.

7Rosenberg & Stiebel New York Gudlaugsson, no. 149.

8Edward Speelman London Acquired from the above, information given by Mr. Anthony Speelman, London, son of Edward Speelman, to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, 8 January 2010, and confirmed by Marlborough International Fine Art, 24 August 2012.

9Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London • 1955 Acquired from the above, information as above, n. (8); AStEGB, Letter from Dr. Walter Drack [curator of the Bührle collection] to Dr. Eduard Plietzsch, Cologne, 27 June 1955, with mention that Bührle had just bought the picture from Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London.

10Emil Bührle Zurich • 27 June 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for £ 55.000 (= CHF 660.000), AStEGB, Price lists, handwritten by Emil Bührle, and containing the names of artists (and sometimes titles), including the present painting; the Price lists were drawn up for a group of Old Master paintings whose purchase Bührle was negotiating with Frank Lloyd from Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London; that part of the purchase included Goya’s Procession (Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 140), along with a painting by El Greco for which the export licence later could not be obtained; 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. 

11Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 167.

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

Sturla J. Gudlaugsson, Katalog der Gemälde Gerard ter Borchs, The Hague, 1960.

Exhibitions

1955Alte Meister aus der Sammlung E. Bührle, Zürich Jegenstorf Castle • Jegenstorf (Bern) • 1955 no. 47.

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. 81.

2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 167.

2017Vermeer et les maîtres de la peinture de genre Musée du Louvre, Paris 2017 • National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin • National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. • 2017–2018 no. 32 (exhibited in Paris only).

References

1833John Smith A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters vol. 4 • London • 1833 • p. 140, no. 76.

1909Cornelis Hofstede de Groot Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts vol. 5 • Esslingen/Neuss & Paris • 1912 •  p. 72, no. 194 (English edition: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London 1909; 2Cambridge 1976).

1944Eduard Plietzsch Gerard ter Borch Vienna • 1944 •  p. 47, entry no. 57.

1948Walther Bernt Die niederländischen Maler des 17. Jahrhunderts Munich • 1948 • vol. 1, no. 112 (ill.).

1959Sturla Jonasson Gudlaugsson Geraert ter Borch The Hague • 1959 • pp. 121–122, fig. 149 (German edition: Katalog der Gemälde Gerard Ter Borchs sowie biographisches Material, 1960, vol. 1, pp. 163–164, no. 149, vol. 2, fig. 149).

1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no.150  (ill.; 21986).

1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • pp. 24 (ill.)–25 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).

2004Gerard ter Borch (exh. cat.) • National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. etc. • 2004 • p. 205, n. 2.

2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. 27 (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. 458 (ill.).