Provenance

Purchased from the artist by Galerie E. Druet, Paris on behalf of Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, and entered in the Gallery, 9 July 1921, stock no. 9564 [see records in the Archives Catalogue raisonné Maurice Denis, Saint-Germain-en-Laye]; purchased from Galerie E. Druet by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. December 1921 [see letters dated 10 and 13 December 1921 from Galerie E. Druet to Léonce Bénédite, in the Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, Paris (copies 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

1921

Exposition Maurice Denis, Galerie Druet, Paris, 21 November 1921 - 2 December 1921, no. 9.

1924

Exposition Maurice Denis, 1888-1924, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, 11 April 1924 - 11 May 1924, cat. no. 292.

1947

Classiques de la peinture française moderne/ Meister der modernen französischen Malerei, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Vienne, 0  1947 - 0  1947, cat. no. 40.

1981

Maurice Denis, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1 September 1981 - 18 October 1981, cat. no. 80

Bibliography

1933

Denis, Maurice. Charmes et leçons de l'Italie. Paris, A. Colin, 1933 (2e édition en 1935), pl. 7, 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-108.

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 97, repr.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 558.

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. 395, col. repr.

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