Updated 27 October 2021
Currently not on display
Antonin Proust
Date | 1884-88 |
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Materials and Techniques | drypoint on laid paper |
Watermarks | None |
Size(cm) | 23.8 x 17.9 (plate); 30.6 x 21.8 (paper) |
State | 4th state |
Inscriptions | Signed in pencil, lower right: Aug Rodin; On the verso: numbered in pencil: 18; No 540. |
Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
Standard ref. | Delteil 10 (iv / vii); Thorson X; M2692 |
Category | Prints |
Collection Number | G.1959-0023 |
Provenance
Purchased from artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. November 1918 (Fr. 250) [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. 156
- 1996
- Rodin: Selected Works from National Museum of Western Art, Yorozu Tetsugoro Memorial Museum, Towacho, 10 October 1996 - 17 November 1996, cat. no. 36
- 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. 87
Bibliography
- 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. 10-4, repr.
- 1975
- Thorson, Victoria. Rodin Graphics: A Catalogue Raisonné of Drypoints and Book Illustrations. San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1975, pp. 57-62, cat. no. X, repr.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1315.
- 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. 2692, col. repr.