The National Museum of Western Art

update 04 February 2012

on display 14th-16th Century Paintings

Emilian School of the 16th century (Alessandro Bedoli?)

Venus and Cupid

Materials/Techniquesoil on canvas
Size (cm)104 x 62
Credit LineEx-Matsukata Collection
CategoryPaintings
Collection NumberP.1962-0003

Provenance

Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe; Private collection, Tokyo; Horai-Shokusan & Co., Tokyo.

Exhibition History

1930
The 3rd exhibition of the Matsukata Coll., Tokyo, 17 May 1930 - 4 June 1930, cat. no. 99 (as the Italian work of the 17th century)
1960
The Masterpieces of the Ex-Matsukata Collection, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 14 May 1960 - 10 July 1960, cat. no. 144, repr.
2007
Parma: Italian Arts from Another Capital City, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 29 May 2007 - 26 August 2007, IV-12

Bibliography

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), D-14, repr.
1967
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 1, 1967, Catalogue of the New Acquisitions. pp. 4-5, no. P-323, repr.
1971
Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1971 (Japanese), no. 100, repr.
1975
Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1975 (Japanese), no. 6, repr.
1979
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 270, repr.
2003
Koshikawa, Michiaki. Venus and Cupid from the Former Matsukata Collection: An Addition to the Œuvre of Alessandro Mazzola Bedoli. Journal of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. no. 7, 2003, pp. 7-18, repr. [with Japanese Abstract]

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