Updated 14 May 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Hercules and the Nemean Lion
| Date | 1849-54 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | pencil on paper |
| Size（cm） | 25.0 x 46.5 |
| Inscriptions | Atelier stamp lower center: E. D. |
| Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | M1522 |
| Category | Drawings |
| Collection Number | D.1959-0013 |
Provenance
Purchased by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, through Léonce Bénédite, ca. January 1919, (Fr. 1,700 for three drawings) [see several letters between Bénédite and Suzuki & Co., January 1919, in Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, 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
- 2001
- French Masterpiece Drawings from The National Museum of Western Art Collection, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 27 March 2001 - 24 June 2001
Bibliography
- 1955
- La Collection Matsukata. Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 , no. 62. (in Japanese)
- 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-93.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 543.
- 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. 1522, col. repr.