Updated 11 March 2024
On Display Special Exhibition Wing
Arrival of the Crown Prince Hirohito at Le Havre
Date | 1921 |
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Materials and Techniques | oil on panel |
Size(cm) | 107 x 208 |
Inscriptions | Signed lower left: E. Louis Gillot.; inscribed on a white label on the reverse: Collection Matsukata / peinture par / Gillot / 1922 |
Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
Standard ref. | M508 |
Category | Paintings |
Collection Number | P.1959-0108 |
Provenance
Commissioned to the artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. 1921 (Fr. 25,000) [see letter from Léonce Bénédite to Suzuki & Co., dated 28 May 1923, 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
- 2019
- The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey: Upon the 60th Anniversary of the NMWA, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11 June 2019 - 23 September 2019, cat. no. 76, col. repr.
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-157.
- 1976
- Higgins, R. L. Eugène-Louis Gillot, peintre de la marine. L'Art et la Mer. no. 12, 1976, p. 24, repr. p. 26.
- 1979
- The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 131, repr.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 715.
- 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. 508, col. repr.