Updated 11 March 2024
On Display Special Exhibition Wing
On Display
Special Exhibition Wing
Reception for the Crown Prince Hirohito at the Town Hall of Paris
Date | 1921 |
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Materials and Techniques | oil on panel |
Size(cm) | 91.8 x 114.4 |
Inscriptions | Signed lower right: E. Louis Gillot |
Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
Standard ref. | M509 |
Category | Paintings |
Collection Number | P.1959-0109 |
Provenance
Commissioned to the artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. 1921 (Fr. 20,000) [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.
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-158.
- 1976
- Higgins, R. L. Eugène-Louis Gillot, peintre de la marine. L'Art et la Mer. no. 12, 1976, p. 24.
- 1979
- The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 132, repr.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 716.
- 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. 509, col. repr.