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Currently not on display

Charles Cottet

Le Puy-en-Velay, 1863 - Paris, 1924

Coast of Brittany

Materials and Techniques oil on cardboard
Size(cm) 35.8 x 45.9
Inscriptions Signed lower right: Ch. Cottet
Credit Line Matsukata Collection
Standard ref. M297
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.1959-0037

Provenance

Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, after 1924; 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. 185, no. 128
1996
The Crossing Visions: European and Modern Japanese Art from the Collections of The National Museum of Western Art & The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 20 July 1996 - 8 September 1996, cat. no. 11
2023
国立西洋美術館, The National Museum of Western Art, 18 March 2023 - 11 June 2023, cat. no. 90

Bibliography

1924
XIVª Esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia, 1924: Catalogo, 2nd ed., [Venezia, 1924], p. 183, cat. no. 128
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-54.
1979
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 49, repr.
1990
The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 450.
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. 297, col. repr.
2023
La Bretagne source d'inspiration: regards de peintres français et japonais (exh. cat.). Hakamata, Hiroyo, ed. Tokyo, Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, 2023, pp. 124, 210-211, cat. no. 90, col. repr.

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