Provenienz
1Hohenzollern family Berlin Gemälde älterer Meister im Berliner Privatbesitz, Berlin 1883, p. 50, no. 59; Het Stilleven, (exh. cat.) Kunsthandel J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam 1933, no. 175
2Galerie Van Diemen & Co. Berlin • by 1935 Die Bestände der Berliner Firmen Galerie Van Diemen & Co., GmbH, Altkunst, Antiquitäten, GmbH, beide in Liquidation, II. (letzter) Teil, Versteigerung 142, (sale cat.) Galerie Paul Graupe, Berlin (26–27 April 1935), no. 45; Silke Reuther, «Margraf & Co., Ein jüdischer Kunsthandelskonzern in Berlin,» in Raubkunst? Provenienzforschung zu den Sammlungen des Museums für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Sabine Schulze, Silke Reuther (eds.), Hamburg 2014, pp. 142–151.
3Private collection Germany • until 1950 AStEGB, Letter from Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, 28 August 2009, stating that the painting was consigned to the 1950 sale by a German collector.
4Art trade Cologne • by 1950 Gemälde alter und neuzeitlicher Meister […], (sale cat.) Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne (3 November 1950), no. 58.
5Private collection Germany • 1950 Letter as above, n. (3), stating that the painting was sold to a German collector or dealer. The hammer price was DM 3.200, Weltkunst (20, no. 22, 15 November) 1950, p. 15.
6Private collection London Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, Festschrift zu Ehren von Emil G. Bührle zur Eröffnung des Kunsthaus-Neubaus und Katalog der Sammlung Emil G. Bührle, (exh. cat.) Kunsthaus Zurich 1958, no. 82.
7Dr. Arthur Kauffmann London • by 1955 AStEGB, Entry Book II, 28 August 1955.
8Emil Bührle Zurich • 28 August 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above, Entry Book as above, n. (7), with refrence to date of purchase. The price might have been ca. CHF 33.000, a figure mentioned on AStEGB, Inventory Card for Kalf, Still Life, and AStEGB, Letter from Dr. Walter Drack [curator of the Bührle Collection] to Dr. Luc Mojon, Bern, President of the association for the preservation of the castle of Jegenstorf, 2 September 1955, with indication of insurance values for 3 paintings that were added to the ongoing exhibition of Bührle’s Old Master works in Jegenstorf, the Kalf being valued at CHF 35.000.
9Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 153.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich