Provenance

Purchased by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. July 1919 (Fr. 6,000) [see letter from Léonce Bénédite to Suzuki & Co., dated 5 July 1919, as “Sommeil”, in the Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, Paris (copy in NMWA curatorial file)]; 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

1924

XIVª Esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia, 0  1924 - 0  1924, cat. p. 177, no. 2 (with the title "Il sonno")

1981

Impressionnisme Paris et Japan, Fuji Art Museum, Fujinomiya, 2 October 1981 - 8 November 1981, cat. no. 35, repr.

1990

The Silent Dialogue: Still Life in the West and Japan, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 21 April 1990 - 10 June 1990, cat. no. Ⅰ-2, col. repr.

Bibliography

1924

XIVª Esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia, 1924: Catalogo, 2nd ed., [Venezia, 1924], p. 175, cat. no. 2 (with the title "Il sonno")

1961

Catalogue du Musée National d'Art Occidental, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1961 (Préface and Catalogue Général in Japanese and French), P-1.

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 1, repr.

1981

Impressionnisme: Paris et Japon (exh. cat.). Fuji Art Museum, ed. Fujinomiya, Fuji Art Museum, 1981, pp. 41, 108, cat. no. 35, repr.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 6.

2018

The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 1: Paintings, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2018, cat. no. 4, col. repr.

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