Updated 04 March 2024
Currently not on display
The Spring
Date | 1882-88 |
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Materials and Techniques | drypoint on wove paper |
Size(cm) | 14.8 x 10.0 (plate); 32.7 x 22.7 (paper) |
State | None |
Inscriptions | Signed in pencil, lower right margin: Aug Rodin; Numbered in, pencil bottom left: 4; On the verso: numbered in pencil: 9; No 539. |
Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
Standard ref. | Delteil 4 (unique state); Thorson IV; M2691 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.1959-0022 |
Provenance
Purchased from artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. September 1920 (Fr. 250) [see several letters between Bénédite and Suzuki & Co., August–September 1920, 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. 155
- 1978
- [Tour Exhibition] Masterpieces from the National Museum of Western Art, The Art Center of Oita Prefecture, Oita, 20 December 1978 - 31 January 1979, cat. no. 24
- 1988
- [Tour Exhibition] Rodin, The Kurayoshi Museum, 13 May 1988 - 12 June 1988, cat. no. 34
- 1992
- [Tour Exhibition] The French Modern Art, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Urasoe Art Museum, 3 November 1992 - 7 December 1992, cat. no. 48
- 1994
- Kokuritsu Seiyo Bijyutsukan shozo sakuhin ni yoru yoroppa bijyutsu eno shotai, Karatsu City Library, 21 November 1994 - 11 December 1997, cat. no. 18, repr.
- 1996
- Rodin: Selected Works from National Museum of Western Art, Yorozu Tetsugoro Memorial Museum, Towacho, 10 October 1996 - 17 November 1996, cat. no. 33
- 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. 83
Bibliography
- 1966
- Mizue. no. 47, Extra Number, September 1966, p. 95. (in Japanese)
- 1969
- Tominaga, Soichi. Auguste Rodin. Yomiuri Shimbun-sha, 1969, no. 152. (in Japanese)
- 1969
- Delteil, Loys. Le Peintre Graveur Illustré: The Graphic Works of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Artists: An Illustlated Catalog: Rude. Barye, Carpeaux, Rodin. Vol. 6. New York, Collectors Editions Ltd., Da Capo Press, 1969, cat. no. 4, repr.
- 1975
- Thorson, Victoria. Rodin Graphics: A Catalogue Raisonné of Drypoints and Book Illustrations. San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1975, pp. 28-31, cat. no. IV, repr.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1314.
- 1992
- The French Modern Art, from The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, ed. Okinawa, Urasoe Art Museum, 1992, p. 57, cat. no. 48, col. repr
- 1994
- Kokuritsu Seiyo Bijutsukan Shozo Sakuhin ni Yoru Europa Bijutsu e no Shotai (exh. cat.). Karatsu City Library; National Museum of Wetsern Art. Karatsu, Karatsu City Library, 1994, cat. no. 18, col. repr.
- 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. 2691, col. repr.