Updated 14 May 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Madame Besnard
| Date | 1884 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | etching |
| Size（cm） | 27.0 x 21.0 |
| Inscriptions | Monogram and dated, lower left margin; AB 1884; inscribed in pencil, lower center margin; tiré à 75, No. 30; signed in pencil, bottom right margin: Besnard |
| Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | Coppier 13; Delteil 16 (Unique state); M1933 |
| Category | Prints |
| Collection Number | G.1959-0004 |
Provenance
Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe; 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
- 2015
- [Prints and Drawings Exhibition]Lithographs and Etchings from Fin-de-Siècle France, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 17 March 2015 - 31 May 2015, cat. no. 36
Bibliography
- 1920
- Coppier, André-Charles. Les Eaux-fortes de Besnard. Paris, 1920, no. 13.
- 1926
- Delteil, Loys. Albert Besnard. Paris, 1926 (Le peintre-graveur illustré, Tome. 30), pl. 16
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 55.
- 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. 1933, col. repr.