Provenance

Purchased by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. April 1921, as “Coin de village” (Fr. 20,000) [see letter from Léonce Bénédite to Suzuki & Co., dated 3 April 1921, 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

1947

Les Origines de l’art contemporain: la peinture française de Manet à Bonnard, Maison d'Art Alsacienne, Strasbourg, 0 September 1947 - 0 October 1947, cat. no. 40

1956

Peinture française du XIXe siècle, Moscow, 0  1956 - 0  1956

1956

Peinture française de David à Cézanne, National Museum, Warsaw, 15 June 1956 - 31 July 1956, cat. no. 81

1978

European Landscape Painting, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu, 3 November 1978 - 15 January 1979, cat. no. 76

1982

From impressionism to école de Paris : its passion and struggle, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 3 November 1982 - 12 December 1982, cat. no. 80, col. repr.

1989

The French Modern Painting, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Miyakonojo City Museum, 15 April 1989 - 14 May 1989, cat. no. 4, col. repr.

1994

Kokuritsu Seiyo Bijyutsukan Shozo Sakuhin ni yoru Yoroppa Bijyutu heno Shotai, Karatsu City Library, 12 November 1994 - 11 December 1994, ｃat. no. 1, col. repr.

1996

The Crossing Visions: European and Modern Japanese Art from the Collections of The National Museum of Western Art & The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 20 July 1996 - 8 September 1996, cat. no. 9

Bibliography

1955

La Collection Matsukata, Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 (Japanese), no. 36, 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-227.

1968

L'art du monde. vol. 7: Manet, Monet, Tokyo, Yamada Shoin, [1968], pl. 45.

1971

Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1971 (Japanese), no. 64, repr.

1975

Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1975 (Japanese), no. 47, 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. 54, repr.

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 215, repr.

1982

From Impressionism to École de Paris : Its Passion and Struggle (exh. cat.). The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, ed. [Urawa], The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 1982, pp. 14, 59, 212, cat. no. 80, col. repr.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1202.

1994

Kokuritsu Seiyo Bijutsukan Shozo Sakuhin ni Yoru Europa Bijutsu e no Shotai (exh. cat.). Karatsu City Library; National Museum of Wetsern Art. Karatsu, Karatsu City Library, 1994, cat. no. 1, col. repr.

2005

Pissarro, Joachim; Snollaerts, Claire Durand-Ruel. Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings. Milan, Skira; Paris, Wildenstein Institute, 2005, vol. 3, p. 692, cat. no. 1094, 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. 866, col. repr.

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