Provenance

Horatio David Davies, Wateringbury Place, Kent (UK); sale (The property of Alderman Sir Horatio D. Davies), Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 27 June 1903, lot 63; jointly purchased by Durand-Ruel, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris [gallery label on the reverse], and Paul Rosenberg, New York; Durand-Ruel's share sold to Paul Rosenberg, 5 January 1920; purchased from Rosenberg by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. March 1922, as ‘Chemin de fer’ (Fr. 25,000) [see letter from Paul Rosenberg to Léonce Bénédite, dated 30 March 1922, 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

1876

Deuxième Exposition de peinture, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 0 April 1876 - 0 April 1876, cat. no. 205

1910

Tableaux et gouaches par Camille Pissarro, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 10 January 1910 - 26 January 1910, cat. no. 42

1947

De David à Cézanne, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussel, 0 November 1947 - 0 January 1948, cat. no. 107, pl. 54

1948

Gli impressionisti alla XXIV Biennale di Venezia, 29 May 1948 - 30 September 1948, cat. no. 19, pl. 20 (as "La strada lungo la ferrovia")

1949

Landscape in French Art (1550-1900), Royal Academy of Arts, London, 10 December 1949 - 5 March 1950, cat. no. 238

1953

Van Gogh's grote tijdgenoten, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 0  1953 - 0  1953, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, 1953, cat. no. 41 (as "La route au bord du chemin de fer; effet de neige")

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. 79

1960

The Masterpieces of the Ex-Matsukata Collection, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 14 May 1960 - 10 July 1960, cat. no. 100

1962

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Hakutsuru Museum, Kobe, 20 October 1962 - 5 November 1962, P-229

1962

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Art Gallery of Aichi Prefecture, Nagoya, 17 November 1962 - 9 December 1962, cat. no. 44 (当館記録による）

1963

The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Shimane Prefectural Museum, Matsue, 5 October 1963 - 20 October 1963, P-229

1963

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume, 26 October 1963 - 10 November 1963, P-229

1973

Exhibitoin of Treasured Masterpieces of the 19th Century Painting, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, 15 September 1973 - 21 October 1973, cat. no. 16

1973

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Kochi Prefecture, Kochi, 28 October 1973 - 25 November 1973, cat. no. 48

1974

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Fukuoka Prefecture, Fukuoka, 13 October 1974 - 10 November 1974, cat. no. 47

1974

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Saga Prefectural Museum, Saga, 16 November 1974 - 1 December 1974, cat. no. 47

1975

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Yamagata Museum, Yamagata, 1 November 1975 - 30 November 1975, cat. no. 48

1976

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori, 9 October 1976 - 7 November 1976, cat. no. 16

1977

[Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Nara Prefectural Museum, Nara, 15 October 1977 - 13 November 1977, cat. no. 14

1978

European Landscape Painting, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 14 September 1978 - 26 October 1978, cat. no. 78, repr.

1978

European Landscape Painting, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu, 3 November 1978 - 15 January 1979, cat. no. 75

1984

Rétrospective Camille Pissarro, Fukuoka Art Museum, 25 April 1984 - 20 May 1984, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, 26 May-1 July, cat. no. 18, col. repr.

1992

[Tour Exhibition] The French Modern Art, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Urasoe Art Museum, 3 November 1992 - 7 December 1992, cat. no. 4

1994

Paris en 1874: L'Année de l'Impressionnisme (Paris in 1874: The Year of Impressionism), National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 20 September 1994 - 27 November 1994, cat. no. 41

1995

Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Modern Japanese Art-Between the East and the West, 1 November 1995 - 30 November 1995, cat. no. 27, col. repr.

1997

Expressiveness of Materials, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 19 April 1997 - 22 June 1997, cat. no. 18

2008

Claude Monet : Impression, soleil levant , Nagoya City Art Museum, 23 December 2008 - 8 February 2009, cat. no. 22, col. repr.

2012

Camille Pissarro: Patriarche de la modernité, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, 24 March 2012 - 27 May 2012, cat. no. 25, col. repr., Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, 6 June 2012 - 19 August 2012

2013

Monet, An Eye for Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings, Pola Museum of Art, 13 July 2013 - 24 November 2013, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 7 December 2013-9 March 2014, cat. no. 16, col. repr.

2015

Japan's Love for Impressionism: From Monet to Renoir, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 8 October 2015 - 21 February 2016, cat. no. 60, col. repr.

Bibliography

1939

Pissarro, L. R.; Venturi, L. Camille Pissarro, son art- son œuvre. Paris, 1939, p. 108, no. 205, pl. 41 (as "la route au bord du chemin de fer, effet de neige")

1955

La Collection Matsukata, Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 (Japanese), no. 11, col. 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-229

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 217, repr.

1981

Lloyd, Christopher, Camille Pissarro, Albert Skira, Geneva, pp. 50-51, repr.

1984

Catalogue of Retrospective Camille Pissarro (exh. cat.). Ikegami, Chuji. [Tokyo], Art Life, 1984, p. 133, cat. no. 18, col. repr.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1204.

1990

Brettell, Richard R., Pissarro and Pontoise, the Painter in a Landscape, New Haven/ London, Yale University Press, 1990, pp. 64, 65, 148, 158, cat. no. 60, repr. color.

1992

The French Modern Art, from The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, ed. Okinawa, Urasoe Art Museum, 1992, p.14, cat. no. 4, col. repr

1995

Modern Japanese Art: Between the East and the West (exh. cat.). National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, ed. [Nagasaki], Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, 1995, pp. 44, 138, 146, cat. no. 27, col. repr.

2005

Pissarro, Joachim; Snollaerts, Claire Durand-Ruel. Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings. Milan, Skira; Paris, Wildenstein Institute, c2005, vol. 2, p. 227, cat. no. 286, repr.

2012

Camille Pissarro: Patriarche de la modernité(exh. cat.). [no place of publication], Artis, c2012, cat. no. 25, col. repr.

2013

MONET, An Eye For Landscapes: Innovation in 19th Century French Landscape Paintings(exh. cat.). Tokyo, TBS, c2013, cat. no. 16, col. repr.

2015

Japan's Love for Impressionism: From Monet to Renoir (exh. cat.). Marks-Hanssen, Beate, ed. Bonn, Bundeskunsthalle, 2015, pp. 104, 245, cat. no. 60, 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. 868, col. repr.

2021

When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 162, 185, cat. no. Y3_38 | T3_10, col. repr.

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