Updated 26 February 2020
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Study for “the Boat of Dante”
Date | 1822(ca.) |
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Materials and Techniques | ink on paper |
Size(cm) | 27.5 x 48.5 |
Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
Standard ref. | M1520 |
Category | Drawings |
Collection Number | D.1959-0011 |
Provenance
Purchased by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, through Léonce Bénédite, ca. January 1919 (Fr. 1,700 for three drawings) [see several letters between Bénédite and Suzuki & Co., January 1919, 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.
Exhibition History
- 1997
- Expressiveness of Materials, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 17 April 1997 - 22 June 1997, cat no. 2
- 2001
- French Masterpiece Drawings from The National Museum of Western Art Collection, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 27 March 2001 - 24 June 2001
Bibliography
- 1955
- La Collection Matsukata. Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955, no. 61. (in Japanese)
- 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-91.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 541.
- 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. 1520, col. repr.