Updated 15 May 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
≫View other images
close
1
Victor Hugo
| Date | 1884 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | drypoint on laid paper |
| Watermarks | None |
| Size（cm） | 21.9 x 15.0 (image); 31.0 x 22.4 (paper) |
| Inscriptions | Signed in pencil, lower right margin: Aug Rodin; Numbered in pencil, bottom left: 1; On the verso: numbered in pencil: 24, No 536. |
| Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | Delteil 6 (vii / viii); Thorson VIII; M2689 |
| Category | Prints |
| Collection Number | G.1959-0020 |
Provenance
Purchased from artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. November 1918 (Fr. 300) [see several letters between Bénédite and Suzuki & Co., November 1918, 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
- 1966
- Rodin, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 23 July 1966 - 11 September 1966, cat. no. 153
- 2006
- August Rodin / Eugène Carrière, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 7 March 2006 - 4 June 2006, cat. no. 70
- 2021
- National Touring Exhibition of Western Art from the NMWA: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata / Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, cat. no. Y1_17 | T1_26
Bibliography
- 1967
- Spear, Athena Tacha. Rodin Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967, pp. 4-7, 90-91, no. III, plate 6.
- 1969
- Delteil, Loys. Le Peintre Graveur Illustré: The Graphic Works of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Artists: An Illustlated Catalog: Rude. Barye, Carpeaux, Rodin. Vol. 6. New York, Collectors Editions Ltd., Da Capo Press, 1969, cat. nos. 6-7, 6-8.
- 1972
- Elsen, Albert; Varnedoe, J. Kirk T. The Drawing of Rodin. London, Elek Books, 1972, p. 63.
- 1975
- Thorson, Victoria. Rodin Graphics: A Catalogue Raisonné of Drypoint and Book Illustrations. San Francisco, The State Museum of San Francisco, 1975, pp. 46-52, cat. no. VIII, repr.
- 1976
- Tancock, John L. The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976, pp. 504-512, no. 87.
- 1988
- Fonsmark, Anne-Brigitte. Rodin. Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1988, pp. 93-97, nos. 12-13.
- 1988
- Rodin: Selected Works from The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. The National Museum of Western Art ed. Kurayoshi Museum, 1988, no. 35.
- 1989
- Goncourt, Jules et Edmond. Journal III. Paris, Robert Laffont, 1989, p. 84.
- 1989
- Goldscheider, Cécile. Rodin, vie et œuvre, Tome I. Paris, Wildenstein Institute, 1989, pp. 174-177, no. 132.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1312.
- 1992
- The French Modern Art, from The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, ed. Okinawa, Urasoe Art Museum, 1992, p. 58, cat. no. 50, col. repr
- 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. 2689, col. repr.
- 2021
- When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 35, 174, cat. no. Y1_17 | T1_26, col. repr.