Provenance

Sale, Paris, 15 May 1878, lot 11; Paschal, 1878; Sale, M. X... (= de Kuyper), Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13 May 1897, lot 17 (Lugt 55385); Galerie Georges Bernheim, Paris; purchased by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. November 1921 (Fr. 20,000) [see letter from Georges Bernheim to Léonce Bénédite, dated 17 November 1921, 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.

Exhibition History

1878

Rétrospective de tableaux et dessins de mâitres modernes, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 0  1878 - 0  1878, cat. no. 39

1929

Gustave Courbet, Petit Palais, Paris, 0  1929 - 0  1929, cat. no. 127

1952

Gustave Courbet, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon, 0  1952 - 0  1952, cat. no. 53

1997

The Window of the Mind: Evolution of Modern Painting, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, 15 January 1997 - 16 February 1997, Karatsu City Library and Kawamura Art Museum, 22 February-23 March, cat. no. 72, col. repr.

2012

Modern European Art from the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Ibara Municipal Denchu Art Museum, 5 October 2012 - 25 November 2012, Iwami Art Museum, 22 December 2012-18 February 2013, cat. no. 2

Bibliography

1955

La Collection Matsukata, Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 (Japanese), repr. p. 2.

1961

Sekai Bijutsu Zenshu. vol. 36, Tokyo, Kadokawa Shoten, 1961 (Japanese) , p. 195, no.14, repr.

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-80.

1978

Fernier, R. La vie et l'œuvre de Gustave Courbet. tome 2, Lausanne/Paris, 1978, p. 172, no. 882, repr.

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 68, repr.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 485.

1997

Evolution of Modern Painting: The Window of the Mind (exh. cat.). National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, ed. [Gifu], Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, 1997, p. 52, cat. no. 72, repr.

2012

Modern European Art from the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art (exh. cat.). Murakami, Hiroya, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 2012, pp. 20, 95, cat. no. 2, col. repr.

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. 325, col. repr.

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