Updated 07 November 2022
Currently not on display
Under the Trees
Date | 1921 |
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Materials and Techniques | watercolour on paper |
Size(cm) | 59.0 x 48.5 |
Inscriptions | Signed lower right: 1921, ABesnard |
Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
Standard ref. | M1355 |
Category | Drawings |
Collection Number | D.1959-0001 |
Provenance
Purchased by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe possibly through Léonce Bénédite, ca. January 1922, as ‘Buste de jeune femme sous un arbre, détrempe’ (Fr. 8,000) [see several letters between Bénédite and Suzuki & Co., January 1922, in Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, Paris; copy in NMWA curatorial files]; sequestered by French government, 1944; vested in French government under San Francisco Peace Treaty, 1952; transferred from French to Japanese government, 23 January 1959; entered into NMWA, April 1959.
Bibliography
- 1924
- XIVª Esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia, 1924: Catalogo, 2nd ed., [Venezia, 1924], p. 176, cat. no. 16
- 1961
- Catalogue du Musée National d'Art Occidental, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1961 (Préface and Catalogue Général in Japanese and French), P-21.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 49.
- 2019
- The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 2: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Decorative Arts and Other Works, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2019, cat. no. 1355, col. repr.