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Currently not on display

Edmond-François Aman-Jean

Chevry-Cossigny, Seine-et-Marne, 1858 - Paris, 1936

Young Girl in the Room

Materials and Techniques oil on canvas
Size(cm) 134.5 x 97.5
Inscriptions Signed lower left: Aman Jean
Credit Line Matsukata Collection
Standard ref. M9
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.1959-0006

Provenance

Purchased by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. July 1919 (Fr. 6,000) [see letter from Léonce Bénédite to Suzuki & Co., dated 5 Jully 1919, as “Portrait de jeune fille”, in the Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, Paris (copy in NMWA curatorial file)]; 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.

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-6.
1979
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 6, repr.
1990
The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 11.
2018
The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 1: Paintings, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2018, cat. no. 9, col. repr.

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