Updated 19 January 2023
Currently not on display
Autumn
Date | 1916 |
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Materials and Techniques | gouache on paper |
Size(cm) | 133.0 x 200.0 |
Inscriptions | Signed lower left: ABesnard Rome 1916 |
Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
Standard ref. | M1356 |
Category | Drawings |
Collection Number | D.1959-0002 |
Provenance
Purchased by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe possibly through Léonce Bénédite, ca. January 1922, as ‘L’automne, grande décoration à la détrempe’ (Fr. 20,000) [see 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
- 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-22.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 50.
- 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. 1356, col. repr.