Provenance

Galerie J. Allard, Paris, photo 6561; purchased by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. November 1921 (Fr. 15,000) [see letter from Léonce Bénédite to Suzuki & Co., dated 22 November 1921, in the Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, Paris (copy in NMWA curatorial file)]; sequestered by French government, 1944; sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21 November 1947, “Biens ennemis placés sous séquestre. Collection privée. Importants tableaux modernes”, lot 6, as “La présentation”, repr. [number label on the frame, “no. 6”; bought in or not sold?]; 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

1924

XIVª Esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia, 0  1924 - 0  1924, cat. p. 187, no. 147

2009

Toulouse-Lautrec et son cercle, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, 10 November 2009 - 23 December 2009, cat. no. 24, col. repr.

Bibliography

1924

XIVª Esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia, 1924: Catalogo, 2nd ed., [Venezia, 1924], p. 185, cat. no. 147

1955

La Collection Matsukata, Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 (Japanese), no. 45, 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-149.

1971

Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1971 (Japanese), no. 31, repr.

1975

Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1975 (Japanese), no. 60, repr.

1978

Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1978 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 65, repr.

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 123, repr.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 664.

2009

Toulouse-Lautrec et son cercle(exh.cat). The Bunkamura Museum of Art. et al., eds. [Tokyo], The Tokyo Shimbun, 2009, cat. no. 24, 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. 471, col. repr.

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