Provenance

M. Knoedler & Co., Paris, stock no. 2278; purchased from the above by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, 10 November 1921 [see M. Knoedler & Co. records, in The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (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

2009

A Century of Portraiture: Renoir, Modigliani, Picasso and Other Artists from the Collection, Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 14 March 2009 - 6 September 2009, cat. no. 22

2023

Another 19th Century: Bouguereau, Millais, and the Academic Painters, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 19 September 2023 - 12 February 2024, cat. no. 19

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-161.

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 138, repr.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 797.

2009

A century of portraiture: Renoir, Modigliani, Picasso, and other artists from the collection(exh. cat.). Pola Museum of Art, ed. Hakonecho(Kanagawa), Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2009, cat. no. 22, 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. 561, col. repr.

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