Updated 05 October 2023
Currently not on display
Photo by (c) Norihiro Ueno
Currently not on display
Bust of Puvis de Chavannes
Date | 1890-91 |
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Materials and Techniques | bronze |
Size(cm) | 51 x 50 x 32 |
Inscriptions | Signed left arm: A. Rodin; Foundry mark lower right back: ALEXIS. RUDIER. / FONDEUR. PARIS |
Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
Standard ref. | M1295 |
Category | Sculptures |
Collection Number | S.1959-0047 |
Provenance
Bought from Musée Rodin by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. August 1919, as ‘Puvis de Chavannes, buste’ (Fr. 6,000) [see several letters between Bénédite and Suzuki & Co., August 1919, in Archives of Musée Rodin, Paris; copy in NMWA curatorial files]; 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
- 1960
- The Masterpieces of the Ex-Matsukata Collection, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 14 May 1960 - 10 July 1960, S-47
- 1962
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Hakutsuru Museum, Kobe, 20 October 1962 - 5 November 1962, S-047
- 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. 71 (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, S-047
- 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, S-047
- 1965
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Kanazawa, 22 September 1965 - 10 October 1965, cat. no. 62
- 1965
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Okayama Prefecture, Okayama, 20 October 1965 - 7 November 1965, cat. no. 62
- 1966
- Rodin, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 23 July 1966 - 11 September 1966, cat. no. 54
- 1968
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Niigata Prefectural Museum, Niigata, 14 July 1968 - 4 August 1968, cat. no. 70
- 1968
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art, Hiroshima, 26 October 1968 - 17 November 1968, cat. no. 70
- 1969
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Ibaraki Prefecture, Mito, 22 November 1969 - 21 December 1969, cat. no. 73
- 1970
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Nagasaki Prefectural Museum, Nagasaki, 18 October 1970 - 15 November 1970, cat. no. 77
- 1971
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Toyama Prefectural Center, Museum of Art, Toyama, 2 October 1971 - 24 October 1971, cat. no. 72
- 1972
- [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Shinano Museum of Art of Nagano Prefecture, Nagano, 12 October 1972 - 5 November 1972, cat. no. 77
- 1996
- Rodin: Selected Works from National Museum of Western Art, Yorozu Tetsugoro Memorial Museum, Towacho, 10 October 1996 - 17 November 1996, cat. no. 11
- 2006
- August Rodin / Eugène Carrière, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 7 March 2006 - 4 June 2006, cat. no. 28
- 2012
- Traces of Hands: Sculpture and Drawings by Rodin and Bourdelle from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 3 November 2012 - 27 January 2013, cat. no. 22
- 2015
- Japan's Love for Impressionism: From Monet to Renoir, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 8 October 2015 - 21 February 2016, cat. no. 90, col. repr.
Bibliography
- 1892
- Pottier, Edmond. Les salons de 1892. Gazette des Beaux-Arts. vol. 8, ser. 3, 1 juillet 1892, p. 22.
- 1903
- Eekhoud, Georges. Chronique de Bruxelles. Mercure de France. vol. 46, Juin 1903, p. 833.
- 1913
- Rilke, Rainer Maria. Auguste Rodin. Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1913, pp. 55-56.
- 1963
- Elsen, Albert. Rodin. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1963, pp. 122-123.
- 1966
- Rodin (exh. cat.). National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 23 July -11 September 1966; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, 18 September - 30 October 1966; Cultural Center of Fukuoka Prefecture, 9 November - 11 December 1966, [Tokyo], Yomiuri-Simbun, 1966, no. 54.
- 1969
- Jianou, lonel et Goldscheider, C. Rodin. Paris, Arted Editions d'Art, 1969, p. 104.
- 1976
- Tancock, John L. The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976, pp. 521-525.
- 1988
- Fonsmark, Anne-Brigitte. Rodin. Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1988, p. 133, no. 27.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. S-61.
- 1996
- Auguste Rodin: Eros und Leidenschaft (exh. cat.). Wien, Kunsthistorisches, 1996, p. 234, no. 67.
- 1999
- French Sculpture. Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1999, no. 140.
- 2001
- Marraud, Hélène. Rodin en 1900: l'exposition de l'alma (exh. cat.). Musée du Luxembourg, 12 March - 15 July 2001, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux , 2001, p. 172, no. 60.
- 2005
- Marraud, Hélène. "Syozo to Guui: Syozo o Koeta Shozo". Le parcours d'un génie. Kyoto, Tankosya, 2005 , pp. 170-172.
- 2013
- Sculptor Kotarō Takamuraʼs 130th Birth Anniversary(exh. cat.). [no place of publication], Sculptor Kotarō Takamuraʼs 130th Birth Anniversary committee, 2013, cat. no. Ⅱ-2, col. repr.
- 2014
- Arcadia by the Shore: the Mythic World of Puvis de Chavannes(exh. cat.). Matsue, Shimane Art Museum, c2014, cat. no. 50, col. repr.
- 2015
- Japan's Love for Impressionism: From Monet to Renoir (exh. cat.). Marks-Hanssen, Beate, ed. Bonn, Bundeskunsthalle, 2015, pp. 148, 246, cat. no. 90, col. repr.
- 2019
- The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 2: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Decorative Arts and Other Works, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2019, cat. no. 1295, col. repr.