Provenance

Purchased from artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. September 1920 (Fr. 200) [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. 157

1997

Resonating Love and Life: European Art from National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, The Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka, 12 April 1997 - 18 May 1997, cat. no. 86

Bibliography

1969

Tominaga, Soichi. Auguste Rodin. Yomiuri Shimbun-sha, 1969, no. 155. (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. 5, repr.

1975

Thorson, Victoria. Rodin Graphics: A Catalogue Raisonné of Drypoints and Book Illustrations. San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1975, pp. 32-37, cat. no. V, repr.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1316.

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. 2693, col. repr.

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