Updated 02 March 2020
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Medea
Date | 19 C |
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Materials and Techniques | chinese ink on paper |
Size(cm) | 48.0 x 33.0 |
Inscriptions | Signed lower left: A Rodin |
Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
Standard ref. | M1769 |
Category | Drawings |
Collection Number | D.1959-0070 |
Provenance
[?] Purchased by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, through Léonce Bénédite, ca. November 1918 [see several letters between Bénédite and Suzuki & Co., November 1918, 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
- 1966
- Rodin, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 23 July 1966 - 11 September 1966, cat. no. 149
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-271.
- 1969
- Tominaga, Soichi. Auguste Rodin. Yomiuri Shimbun-sya, 1969, no. 156. (in Japanese)
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1308.
- 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. 1769, col. repr.