Provenance

Purchased by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. July 1919, as “Comédie enfantine” (Fr. 6,000) [see letter from Léonce Bénédite to Suzuki & Co., dated 5 July 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.

Exhibition History

1919

Société National des Beaux-Arts, Salon de 1919, Paris, 0  1919 - 0  1919, (with the title "Comédie Enfantine")

2023

国立西洋美術館, The National Museum of Western Art, 18 March 2023 - 11 June 2023, cat. no. 111

Bibliography

1919

Bouyer, R. Les Salons de 1919. Gazette des Beaux-Arts. ser. 4, tome 15, 1919, p. 170 ( with the title "Comédie enfantine").

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-289.

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 261, repr.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1386.

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. 991, col. repr.

2023

La Bretagne source d'inspiration: regards de peintres français et japonais (exh. cat.). Hakamata, Hiroyo, ed. Tokyo, Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, 2023, pp. 145, 214, cat. no.111, col. repr.

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