Updated 14 May 2025
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Study for ‘The Return of Persephone’
| Materials and Techniques | Chalk on brown paper |
|---|---|
| Size（cm） | 28.3 x 24.2 |
| Inscriptions | Marked with studio stamp lower left: LLC [Lugt 1741a]; inscribed lower center: Return of Persephone |
| Credit Line | Ex-Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | M1665 |
| Category | Drawings |
| Collection Number | D.2017-0089 |
Provenance
The Fine Art Society, London [gallery label on backboard]; Barbizon House, London [gallery label on backboard]; Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe; pledged by Matsukata to save his business, Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd., Kobe and then seized by Jugo Bank, Tokyo, 1927 [Jugo Bank label on backboard]; private collection, Japan; deposited in NMWA, 25 January 2016, ref. no. 72; purchased by NMWA, 13 July 2017.
Exhibition History
- 2019
- The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey: Upon the 60th Anniversary of the NMWA, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11 June 2019 - 23 September 2019, cat. no. 36, col. repr.
- 2023
- Another 19th Century: Bouguereau, Millais, and the Academic Painters, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 19 September 2023 - 12 February 2024, cat. no. 6
Bibliography
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1740, unattributed.
- 2019
- The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of the Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2019, pp. 106-107, 355, cat. no. 36, col. repr.
- 2019
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 52 (Apr. 2017-Mar. 2018), 2019, List of New Acquisitions. p. 26.
- 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. 1665, col. repr.