Updated 14 November 2023
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Horse in a Stable
Date | 1873 |
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Materials and Techniques | oil on canvas |
Size(cm) | 60 x 73.3 |
Inscriptions | Signed and dated lower left: 73 / G. Courbet. |
Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
Standard ref. | Fernier 882; M325 |
Category | Paintings |
Collection Number | P.1959-0056 |
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
- 1965
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Kanazawa, 22 September 1965 - 10 October 1965, cat. no. 6
- 1965
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Okayama Prefecture, Okayama, 20 October 1965 - 7 November 1965, cat. no. 6
- 1968
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Niigata Prefectural Museum, Niigata, 14 July 1968 - 4 August 1968, cat. no. 5
- 1968
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art, Hiroshima, 26 October 1968 - 17 November 1968, cat. no. 5
- 1969
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Ibaraki Prefecture, Mito, 22 November 1969 - 21 December 1969, cat. no. 4
- 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
- [Traveling Exhibitions presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2012] Modern European Art: From the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Ibara Municipal Denchu Art Museum (Okayama), 5 October 2012 - 25 November 2012, 02
Bibliography
- 1955
- La Collection Matsukata, Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 (Japanese), repr. p. 2.
- 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.
- 1961
- Sekai Bijutsu Zenshu. vol. 36, Tokyo, Kadokawa Shoten, 1961 (Japanese) , p. 195, no.14, repr.
- 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.
- 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.