Updated 18 October 2023
Currently not on display
Nude
Date | 19 C |
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Materials and Techniques | watercolour on paper |
Size(cm) | 31.5 x 24.5 |
Inscriptions | Signed lower right: Aug. Rodin; Inscribed upper right: Carmen; Inscribed lower right: esmelarda |
Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
Standard ref. | M1764 |
Category | Drawings |
Collection Number | D.1959-0065 |
Provenance
[?] Purchased by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, through Léonce Bénédite, 1918-1919 [see several letters between Bénédite and Suzuki & Co., 1918-1919, 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
- 2012
- Traces of Hands: Sculpture and Drawings by Rodin and Bourdelle from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 3 November 2012 - 27 January 2013, cat. no. 77
- 2019
- The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey: Upon the 60th Anniversary of the NMWA, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11 June 2019 - 23 September 2019, cat. no. 89, col. repr.
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-265.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1303.
- 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. 1764, col. repr.