Updated 06 December 2023
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Young Girls on the Shore
Materials and Techniques | oil on canvas |
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Size(cm) | 50.2 x 73.1 |
Inscriptions | Signed lower left: E. R. Ménard |
Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
Standard ref. | M741 |
Category | Paintings |
Collection Number | P.1959-0142 |
Provenance
Purchased by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. January 1919, as “Jeunes filles sur la grève” (Fr. 4,000) [see letter from Léonce Bénédite to Suzuki & Co., dated 10 January 1919, 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
- 1955
- La Collection Matsukata, Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 (Japanese), no. 52, 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-198.
- 1979
- The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 180, repr.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1022.
- 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. 741, col. repr.