Provenance

Purchased by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. October 1918, as “Au bord de l'eau” (Fr. 10,000) [see letter from Léonce Bénédite to Suzuki & Co., dated 10 Ocotber 1918, 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

2017

[Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017] Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: From the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, 22 April 2017 - 2 July 2017, Akita Museum of Modern Art, 15 July-18 September, cat. no. 59

Bibliography

1983

Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 16 (1982), 1983, Change of Inventory Number. pp.36-37, repr.

1990

Catalogue of Painting Acquisitions: 1979-1989. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1990, pp. 80-81, repr.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. D-8.

2017

Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: from the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017 (exh. cat.). Nakada, Asuka, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2017, pp. 89, 140, cat. no. 59, 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. 554, col. repr.

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