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Currently not on display

Eugène Carrière

Gournay, 1849 - Paris, 1906

Mother and Child

Materials and Techniques oil on canvas
Size(cm) 29.3 x 40.4
Inscriptions Signed lower left: Eugène Carrière
Credit Line Matsukata Collection
Standard ref. Rapetti 911; M209
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.1959-0030

Provenance

Galerie J. Allard, Paris, stock no. 5286; purchased from the above by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, 1921, as “Femme et enfant couché” [see letter from Galerie J. Allard to Léonce Bénédite, dated 15 November 1921, 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

1989
The French Modern Painting, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Miyakonojo City Museum, 15 April 1989 - 14 May 1989, cat. no. 14, repr.
1989
Le monde des intimistes : le bonheur de quotidien, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 5 August 1989 - 20 October 1989
1997
Resonating Love and Life: European Art from National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka, 12 April 1997 - 18 May 1997, cat. no. 22
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. 15

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), P-41.
1971
Boime, Albert. The Academy and French Painting in the Nineteenth Century. London, 1971, p. 76, fig. 42.
1979
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 36, repr.
1989
Le monde des intimistes: le bonheur de quotidien (exh. cat.). The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, ed. [Urawa], The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 1989, pp. 37, 104, cat. no. 10, col. repr.
1990
The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 353.
2008
Rapetti, Rodolphe. Eugène Carrière 1849-1906: catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Paris, Editions Gallimard, 2008, cat. no. 911, repr.
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. 37, 138, cat. no. 15, 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. 209, col. repr.

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