ALBERT ANKER (1831 Ins 1910) Girl with a cat (Fillette avec un chat). 1881. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated at left: Anker 1881. 55.5 × 40 cm. - Provenance: - Schmid Collection, acquired directly from the artist in 1881. - Collection of Mme Fréd. Schmid, 1910. - Collection of Mme J. Lambert, Neuchâtel, 1931. - Private collection, Geneva, 1962. - Important Swiss private collection. Exhibited: - Neuchâtel 1882, Vingtième exposition de la Société des Amis des Arts, 1-31.5.1882, no. 1, as "Le petit ami". - Neuchâtel 1910, Albert Anker, Salles Léopold Robert, Neuchâtel, 1.-30.11.1910, no. 24. - Bern 1931, Anker-Jahrhundertausstellung, Berner Kunstmuseum, 20.6.-23.8.1931, no. 103. - Ins 1981, Albert Anker. Der Maler und seine Welt, Sporthalle Ins, 19.9.-18.10.1981, no. 73. - Bellinzona 1989, Albert Anker, Civica Galleria d'Arte, Villa dei Cedri, April-June 1989, no. 25. - Ins 2000, Albert Anker. Wege zum Werk, Sporthalle Ins, 16.9.-15.10.2000, no. 116. Source: Albert Anker: Livre de Vente 30 December 1881: "de Schmid pour une fillette avec un chat 400". Literature: - Albert Anker, Max Huggler and Kunstmuseum Bern: Albert Anker. Katalog der Gemälde und Ölstudien, Bern 1962, no. 216. - Sandor Kuthy and Therese Bhattacharya-Stettler: Albert Anker. Werkkatalog der Gemälde und Ölstudien, Basel 1995, p. 156, no. 289 (with ill.).