Provenance

Purchased from the artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. December 1921 (Fr. 8,000) [see records in the Archives Catalogue raisonné Maurice Denis, Saint-Germain-en-Laye and letters dated 10 December and 13 December 1921 from Galerie E. Druet to Léonce Bénédite, in the Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, Paris (copies 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

1921

Exposition Maurice Denis, Galerie Druet, Paris, 21 November 1921 - 2 December 1921, cat. no. 32.

1922

Exposition nationale coloniale de Marseille/ section officielle des Beaux-Arts, Société des peintres orientalistes français, Marseille, 16 April 1922 - 19 December 1922, cat. no. 270.

1923

Les Peintres orientalistes français. 24e exposition, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 0 July 1923 - 0 July 1923, cat. no. 84.

1924

XIVª Esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia, 0  1924 - 0  1924, cat. p. 179, no. 32

1981

Maurice Denis, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1 September 1981 - 18 October 1981, cat. no. 78

1982

Exposition coloniales 1906-22, Musée de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, 0 November 1982 - 0 February 1983, cat. no. 3-12, repr.

Bibliography

1924

XIVª Esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia, 1924: Catalogo, 2nd ed., [Venezia, 1924], p. 177, cat. no. 32

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-95.

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 84, repr.

1982

Les Expositions Coloniales: 1906-1922: l'Orient des Provençaux (exh. cat.). Bourlard-Collin, Simone et al. [Marseille], Vieille Charité, [1982], cat. no. 3-12, repr.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 545.

2000

Marion, Vidal-Bué. Alger et ses peintres, 1830-1960. Paris, Paris-Méditerranée, 2000, p. 166, 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. 382, col. repr.

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