Provenance

Purchased from artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. September 1920, as ‘V. Hugo, face’ (Fr. 350) [see several letters between Bénédite and Suzuki & Co., August-September 1920, 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. 154

2006

August Rodin / Eugène Carrière, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 7 March 2006 - 4 June 2006, cat. no. 71

Bibliography

1889

Lostalot, Alfred de. Expositions diverses, peintures-graveurs: Société des aquarellistes français. Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 1, ser. 3, 1889, p. 235.

1907

Lawton, Frederick. The Life and Work of Auguste Rodin. New York, Charles Scribner's sons, 1907, pp. 82-85.

1966

Sutton, Denys. Triumphant Satyr: The World of Auguste Rodin. New York, Hawthorn Books, 1966, p. 57.

1969

Tominaga, Soichi. Auguste Rodin. Yomiuri Shimbun-sha, 1969, no. 151. (in Japanese)

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. no. 7.

1975

Thorson, Victoria. Rodin Graphics: A Catalogue Raisonné of Drypoint and Book Illustrations. San Francisco, The State Museum of San Francisco, 1975, pp. 53-56, cat. no. IX, repr.

1987

Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, l'estampe en France: du XVIème au XIXème siecle (exh. cat.). 27 May- -5 July 1987. Tokyo, Musée des estampes de la ville de Machida, 1987, cat. no. 183.

1987

Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, l'estampe en France: du XVIème au XIXème siecle (exh. cat.). Musée des estampes de la ville de Machida, ed. 11 July - 16 August 1987. Niigata, Musée d'art de la ville de Niigata, 1987, cat. no. 183.

1988

Rodin: Selected Works from The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. The National Museum of Western Art ed. Kurayoshi Museum, 1988, no. 36.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1313.

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. 59, cat. no. 51, col. repr

2001

Judrin, Claudie. "Rodin's drawing". Rodin: Sculpture and Drawings (exh. cat.). Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, 2001, pp. 78-79.

2002

Victor Hugo vu par Rodin (exh. cat.). Musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie de Besançon, 4 October 2002 - 27 January, 2003. Besançon, Paris/ Somogy édition d'art; Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, 2002, no. 30.

2003

Elsen, Albert. Rodin's Art: The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. Barryte, Bernard ed. New York, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 295.

2004

Newton, Joy. "William Ernest Henley and the Launching of Rodin's Career". Rodin: The Zola of Sculpture. Aldershot, Ashgate Publishing, 2004, pp. 62-63.

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. 2690, 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_18 | T1_27, col. repr.

Page top