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Émile-Auguste Carolus-Duran

Lille, 1838 - Paris, 1917

Sitting Nude

Date	1886
Materials and Techniques	oil on canvas
Size（cm）	100 x 81.5
Inscriptions	Signed and dated lower left: Carolus-Duran / 1886.
Credit Line	Matsukata Collection
Standard ref.	M202
Category	Paintings
Collection Number	P.1959-0090

Provenance

Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, by 1923–1925; 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

1982: Exposition spéciale pour l'ouverture du Musée des Beaux-Arts,Gifu : Paris autour de 1882 : Le Développemėnt de la peinture moderne en France et Hôsui Yamamoto, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, 3 November 1982 - 19 December 1982, cat. no. 16, repr.
1983: 1880nendai no Parigadan Ten, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, 15 January 1983 - 20 February 1983, cat. no. 7, repr.
1983: Modern Nude Paintings: 1880-1980, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 7 October 1983 - 4 December 1983, cat. no. 115
1997: Floating Images of Women in Art History, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, 20 July 1997 - 28 September 1997, cat. no. 12, repr.
2021: National Touring Exhibition of Western Art from the NMWA 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, cat. no. Y3_3| T3_30

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-137.
1979: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 33, repr.
1982: Paris autour de 1882: Le Développemėnt de la peinture moderne en France et Hôsui Yamamoto: Exposition spéciale pour l'ouverture du Musée des Beaux-Arts,Gifu (exh. cat.). Musée des Beaux-Arts,Gifu, ed. Gifu, Musée des Beaux-Arts,Gifu, 1982, cat. no. 16, repr.
1983: Modern Nude Paintings 1880-1980 (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Art, Osaka, ed. [Suita], The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 1983, pp. 40, 116, cat. no. 115, repr.
1983: 1880nendai no Paris Gadan Ten (exh. cat.). The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura; The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, eds. [Tokyo], Tokyo Shimbun, 1983, cat. no. 7, repr.
1990: The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 346.
1997: Floating Images of Women in Art History : from the Birth of the Feminism toward the Dissolution of the Gender (exh. cat.). Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, ed. Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, 1997, p.33, cat. no. 12, 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. 202, 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. 121, 198, cat. no. Y3_3| T3_30, col. repr.