Provenienz
1Johann Peter Weyer Cologne • until 1862 Illustrierter Katalog der reichen Gemälde-Galerie des Herrn J. P. Weyer …, (sale cat.) J. M. Heberle, Cologne (25 August 1862), no. 145; for the Weyer collection Horst Vey, «Johann Peter Weyer, seine Gemäldesammlung und seine Kunstliebe», in Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch (28) 1966, pp. 159–253.
2Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern Düsseldorf & Castle Sigmaringen • 1862 until [d.] 1885 Vey, as above, n. (1), p. 72, n. 51, regarding the prince’s acquisition of paintings from the Weyer collection through the intermediary of Adolf Müller, professor at the art academy of Düsseldorf; F. A. Lehner, Fürstlich Hohenzollern’sches Museum zu Sigmaringen, Verzeichnis der Gemälde, Sigmaringen 1871, no. 197 (21883). The painting became part of the Fürstlich Hohenzollernsche Sammlung, housed at Castle Sigmaringen. The museum with its gallery of paintings by (mainly) German Old Masters was inaugurated in 1867, in the presence of King Wilhelm I of Prussia, a relative of Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern.
3The Princes von Hohenzollern Castle Sigmaringen • until 1928 Regarding the dissolution of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Collection, see Anja Heuss, «Die Auflösung der Fürstlichen Sammlungen Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen», in Jahrbuch der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden-Württemberg (50) 2013/14, pp. 59–63.
4Viscount Lee of Fareham Old Quarries • Avening (Gloucester) • by 1930/36 AStEGB, Letter from Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, to Dr. Arthur Kauffmann, London, 25 June 1954, with provenance, exhibition, and publication references, quoting: «Professor W. G. Constable, ‹Northern Painting in the Lee Collection›, in International Studio (March) 1930, with colour plate»; Catalogue of an Exhibition of Gothic Art in Europe, c. 1200–c. 1500, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London 1936, no. 66.
5Rosenberg & Stiebel New York AStEGB, Payment order from Emil Bührle to Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 7 September 1954, for the sum of $ 25.000. This document mentions that Dr. Arthur Kauffmann will be the recipient of the funds for the Mount of Calvary, purchased by Bührle from Rosenberg & Stiebel in New York.
6Emil Bührle Zurich • 9 September 1954 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for $ 25.000, as above, n. (5), and AStEGB, Confirmation of execution of payment from Industrie- und Handelsbank, Zurich, 9 September 1954.
7Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 147.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich