Young Bull Butting

Dupper [1];

Count Grigori (or Grégoire) Sergeyevich Stroganoff (1829–1910), Rome, by 1910 [2];

Fürst Dohna, Lörrach, Germany [3];

Purchased from Fürst Dohna by the dealer Joseph Fach, Frankfurt, Germany, as Bull Butting, by September 20, 1959 [4];

Purchased from Fach by Milton McGreevy (1903–1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, September 20–November 10, 1959;

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1959.

NOTES:

[1] This constituent might be Leendert Dupper Willemszoon (1799–1870), Dordrecht, who was a sugar-refiner. He bequeathed a collection of 64 Old Master paintings to the Rijksmuseum upon his death.

[2] Count Grigori (or Grégoire) Sergeyevich Stroganoff (1829–1910), Rome, built an important collection of paintings, sculptures, works of art, and antiquities between 1865 and 1910. His collector’s mark appears on the verso of this drawing.

[3] This constituent is probably Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten (Wilhelm Hermann Alexander Fürst zu Dohna-Schlobitten, 1899–1997). He became Prince (Fürst) in 1918 and was the last of his line to use the princely title. He managed his family’s estate, Schlobitten (today in Poland), from 1924 until it was destroyed by the Red Army around 1945. From 1945 to 1948, Dohna lived in Thedinghausen, Germany, and then he moved to Switzerland in 1948. From 1961 to 1979 he owned a dry-cleaning company in Lörrach, which is on the border with Switzerland.

[4] See Joseph Fach invoice, September 20, 1959, NAMA Archives, MS007 Milton McGreevy records. The invoice also specifies former collections of “Dupper” and “Stroganoff.”