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On Display

Permanent collection

Gustave Courbet

Ornans, 1819 - La Tour-de-Peilz, 1877

Apples

Date c. 1871
Materials and Techniques oil on cardboard
Size(cm) 24.5 x 33.5
Inscriptions Signed upper right: G. Courbet.
Credit Line Matsukata Collection
Standard ref. Fernier 799; M328
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.1959-0059

Provenance

Reinach, Paris; Galerie Georges Bernheim, Paris; purchased from the above by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. November 1921 [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

1947
De David à Cézanne, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussel, 0  1947 - 0  1948, cat. no. 78
1952
Gustave Courbet, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon, 0  1952 - 0  1952, cat. no. 51
1990
The Silent Dialogue: Still Life in the West and Japan, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 21 April 1990 - 10 June 1990, cat. no. Ⅰ-7, col. repr
1996
The Crossing Visions: European and Modern Japanese Art from the Collections of The National Museum of Western Art & The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 20 July 1996 - 8 September 1996, cat. no. 90
2005
Apples in Art: From Dürer to Now, Hiroshima Museum of Art, 23 April 2005 - 5 June 2005, cat. no. 6, col. repr.
2021
When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, no. Y3_19 | T3_46, col. repr.

Bibliography

1955
La Collection Matsukata, Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 (Japanese), no. 4, col. repr.
1959
Mizue: Tokushu Matsukata Korekushon no Kaiga. no. 651, Tokyo, Bijutsu Shuppansha, July 1959 (Japanese), n. p. 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-83.
1978
Fernier, R. La vie et l'œuvre de Gustave Courbet. tome 2, Lausanne/Paris, 1978, p. 140, no. 799, repr.
1979
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 71, repr.
1990
The Silent Dialogue: Still Life in the West and Japan (exh. cat.). Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, ed. [Shizuoka], Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 1990, pp. 35, 202, cat. no. 1-7, col. repr.
1990
The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 488.
2005
Apples in Art: From Dürer to Now Hiroshima Museum of Art (exh. cat.). Watanabe, Junko et al., eds. [Hiroshima], Hiroshima Museum of Art, 2005, cat. no. 6, col. repr.
2013
Courbet/ Cézanne, la vérité en peinture(exh. cat.). Lyon, Fage éditions, c2013, p. 158; p. 166, cat. no. 36, col. repr.; Album, p. 28, 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. 328, col. repr.
2021
When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 131, 199, cat. no. Y3_19 | T3_46, col. repr.

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