Provenance

Reinach, Paris; 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, 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

1947

De David à Cézanne, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussel, 0  1947 - 0  1948, cat. no. 78

1952

Gustave Courbet, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon, 0  1952 - 0  1952, cat. no. 51

1960

Masterpieces of the Ex-Matsukata Collection, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 14 May 1960 - 10 July 1960, cat. no. 22

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-7, col. repr

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, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 20 July 1996 - 8 September 1996, cat. no. 90

2005

Apples in Art: From Dürer to Now, Hiroshima Museum of Art, 23 April 2005 - 5 June 2005, cat. no. 6, col. repr.

2010

Shadows: Works from the National Museums of Art, The National Art Cener, Tokyo, 8 September 2010 - 18 October 2010, cat. no.8

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, no. Y3_19 | T3_46, col. repr.

Bibliography

1955

La Collection Matsukata, Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 (Japanese), no. 4, col. repr.

1959

Mizue: Tokushu Matsukata Korekushon no Kaiga. no. 651, Tokyo, Bijutsu Shuppansha, July 1959 (Japanese), n. p. repr.

1960

Masterpieces of the Ex-Matsukata Collection (exh. cat.). [Tokyo], [The National Museum of Western Art], [1960], cat. no. 22

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-83.

1978

Fernier, R. La vie et l'œuvre de Gustave Courbet. tome 2, Lausanne/Paris, 1978, p. 140, no. 799, repr.

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 71, repr.

1990

The Silent Dialogue: Still Life in the West and Japan (exh. cat.). Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, ed. [Shizuoka], Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 1990, pp. 35, 202, cat. no. 1-7, col. repr.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 488.

2005

Apples in Art: From Dürer to Now Hiroshima Museum of Art (exh. cat.). Watanabe, Junko et al., eds. [Hiroshima], Hiroshima Museum of Art, 2005, cat. no. 6, col. repr.

2010

Shadows: Works from the National Museums of Art (exh. cat.). The National Art Center, Tokyo et al., eds. [Tokyo], Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art, 2010, pp. 26, 179, cat. no. 8, col. repr.

2013

Courbet/ Cézanne, la vérité en peinture(exh. cat.). Lyon, Fage éditions, c2013, p. 158; p. 166, cat. no. 36, col. repr.; Album, p. 28, 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. 328, 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. 131, 199, cat. no. Y3_19 | T3_46, col. repr.

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