Provenance

Guilland, until 1895; Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris/New York, stock no. 3394; Galerie Georges Bernheim, Paris; purchased from the above by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. November 1921 [see letter from Georges Bernheim to Léonce Bénédite, dated 17 November 1921, as “La neige”, 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

1993

The Painters of Barbizon and Japan, Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art, 4 September 1993 - 11 October 1993, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, 16 October-5 December 1993, cat. no. 31, col. repr.

2012

Modern European Art from the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Ibara Municipal Denchu Art Museum, 5 October 2012 - 25 November 2012, Iwami Art Museum, 22 December 2012-18 February 2013, cat. no. 3

2020

Courbet and the Sea: Eyes on Nature in the 19th Century, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Kofu, 11 September 2020 - 3 November 2020, Fukuyama Museum of Art, 19 December 2020-21 February 2021, no. 31, col. repr.

2021

When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, cat. no. Y3_37 | T3_56, col. repr.

Bibliography

1955

La Collection Matsukata, Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 (Japanese), no. 34, repr.

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-81.

1978

Fernier, R. La vie et l'œuvre de Gustave Courbet. tome 2, Lausanne/Paris, 1978, p. 166, no. 867, repr.

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 69, repr.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 486.

1993

The Painters of Barbizon and Japan (exh. cat.). Executive Committee of the Painters of Barbizon and Japan, ed. [Yamanashi], Executive Committee of the Painters of Barbizon and Japan, 1993, pp. 61, 187, 188, cat. no. 31. col. repr.

2012

Modern European Art from the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art (exh. cat.). Murakami, Hiroya, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 2012, pp. 21, 95, cat. no. 3, col. repr.

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. 326, col. repr.

2020

Courbet and the Sea: Eyes on Nature in the 19th Century (exh. cat.). Suzuki, Issei; Morikawa, Monami; Koga Akiko, eds. Fukuyama Museum of Art; Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art; Panasonic Shiodome Museum of Art, 2020, pp. 61, 162, cat. no. 31, col. repr.

2021

When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 160, 200, cat. no. Y3_37 | T3_56, col. repr.

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