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Currently not on display

Charles Cottet

Le Puy-en-Velay, 1863 - Paris, 1924

Venice

Date c. 1897
Materials and Techniques oil on cardboard
Size(cm) 61.5 x 88
Inscriptions Signed lower left: Ch. Cottet
Credit Line Matsukata Collection
Standard ref. M314
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.1959-0053

Provenance

Purchased by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. October 1918 (Fr. 4,000) [see letter from Léonce Bénédite to Suzuki & Co., dated 10 October 1918, as “Venise vue des jardins”, 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. 185, no. 127

Bibliography

1924
XIVª Esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia, 1924: Catalogo, 2nd ed., [Venezia, 1924], p. 183, cat. no. 127
1928
Aubert, L. -F. Peintures de Charles Cottet. Paris, 1928, repr. p. 43.
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-70.
1979
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 65, repr.
1990
The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 467.
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. 314, col. repr.

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