Provenance
1Konsul August Brinckmann • Haus Hohenlucht Hamburg-Blankenese • by 1941 Hubert Wilm, Altdeutsche Plastik im Hause Hohenlucht, Hamburg 1941, pp. 19–20. An indication given by Wilms, according to which the sculpture had been a long-term loan to the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin, is not corroborated by the surviving archival documents of the Museum. Equally without confirmation in the existing literature on the famous collection is an indication on AStEGB, Inventory Card Virgin and Child, according to which the owner before Brinckmann had been James Simon, Berlin, Sophie Guillot de Suduiraut, «Sainte Barbe, une sculpture souabe du XVe siècle au musée Toulouse-Lautrec d'Albi», in La revue des musées de France, Revue du Louvre, (June) 2013, p. 35, n. 11.
2Dr. Benno Griebert Meersburg • by 1952 AStEGB, Entry Book I, 29 September 1952.
3Emil Bührle Zurich • 14 October 1952 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for CHF 30.000, Entry Book as above, n. (3), and annotation of price. The price information is corroborated by AStEGB, Note, handwritten by Emil Bührle and listing purchases made from Griebert in 1952, including «Grosse Madonna» for CHF 30.000; AStEGB, Inventory Card as above, n. (1), with date of acquisition.
4Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. P20.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Exhibitions
2016Heiliger Besuch, Gotische Skulpturen der Sammlung E.G. Bührle und Madonnenbilder von Annelies Štrba Museum zu Allerheiligen • Schaffhausen • 2016 no. 17.
2019Verehrt, Geliebt, Vergessen, Maria zwischen den Konfessionen Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt (Augusteum) • Wittenberg • 2019 no. 29.
References
1941Hubert Wilm Altdeutsche Plastik im Hause Hohenlucht Hamburg • 1941 • pp. 9, 19–20, fig 2 (detail), 3.
1942Hubert Wilm «Altdeutsche Plastik im Hause Hohenlucht» in Pantheon (29) • 1942 • pp. 64, 66 (ill.).
1969Albrecht Miller Allgäuer Bildschnitzer der Spätgotik Kempten • 1969 • pp. 39 (no. 39), 79 (ill.).
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 186 (ill.;21986).
2005Lukas Gloor • Marco Goldin (ed.)Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 1 • Conegliano & Zurich • 2005 • no. S13 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2013Sophie Guillot de Suduiraut «Sainte Barbe, une sculpture souabe au Musée Toulouse-Lautrec d'Albi» in La Revue des musées de France, Revue du Louvre (June) • 2013 • pp. 24–35, fig. 3.
2015Damien Berné «L'héritage de Hans Multscher» in Sculptures souabes de la fin du Moyen Âge (exh. cat.) • Musée de Cluny/Musée national du Moyen Âge • Paris • 2015 • p. 14, fig. 10.
2015Sophie Guillot de Suduiraut Dévotion et séduction, Sculptures souabes des musées de France vers 1460–1530 Paris • 2015 • pp. 114–119, fig. 7, 9, 11, 13, n. 17, 22.
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. 574 (ill.).