Updated 03 June 2026
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
Study of a Young Man, Seated
| Date | 1895 |
|---|---|
| Size（cm） | 29.5 x 21.8 (image); 35.7 x 26.4 (paper) |
| Inscriptions | Inscribed and signed in pencil lower right: To Mr. Goulding / John S. Sargent; on mount lower left: (147) / No. 23 |
| Credit Line | Ex-Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | M2702 |
| Category | Prints |
| Collection Number | G.2017-0117 |
Provenance
Frederick Goulding, London; sold on commission by the Leicester Galleries, London to Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, 1 February 1918, as ‘Study’ (£95 for ‘The Thirteen Fantin lithographs, the two Corot etchings and Sargent “Study”’) [see the Leicester Galleries records at Ernest & Phillips Ltd.; copy in NMWA curatorial files]; pledged by Matsukata to save his business, Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd., Kobe and then seized by Jugo Bank, Tokyo, 1927; private collection, Japan; deposited in NMWA, 25 January 2016, ref. no. 52; 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. 25, col. repr.
- 2024
- Augustus John and His Age: Modern British Art from the Matsukata Collection, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 5 October 2024 - 11 February 2025, cat. no. 3
Bibliography
- 2019
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 52 (Apr. 2017-Mar. 2018), 2019, List of New Acquisitions. p. 32.
- 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. 2702, col. repr.
- 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, p. 93, 353, cat. no. 25, col. repr.