Provenance

Purchased from the artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. December 1921 (Fr. 8,000) [see letters dated 10 December and 13 December 1921 from Galerie E. Druet to Léonce Bénédite, in the Bibliothèque centrale des musées nationaux, Paris (copies 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

1921

Exposition Maurice Denis, Galerie Druet, Paris, 21 November 1921 - 2 December 1921, no. 31.

1922

Exposition nationale coloniale de Marseille (section officielle des Beaux-Arts, Société des peintres orientalistes français), Marseille, 16 April 1922 - 19 December 1922, no. 269, repr.

1924

XIVª Esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia, 0  1924 - 0  1924, cat. p. 179, no. 33

1981

Maurice Denis, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1 September 1981 - 18 October 1981, cat. no. 79

1982

Exposition coloniales 1906-22, Musée de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, 0 November 1982 - 0 February 1983, cat. no. 3-13, repr.

Bibliography

1924

XIVª Esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia, 1924: Catalogo, 2nd ed., [Venezia, 1924], p. 177, cat. no. 33

1945

Barazzetti, S. Maurice Denis. Paris, 1945, p. 291.

1955

La Collection Matsukata, Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 (Japanese), no. 26, col. 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-97.

1971

Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1971 (Japanese), no. 24, repr.

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 86, repr.

1982

Les Expositions Coloniales: 1906-1922: l'Orient des Provençaux (exh. cat.). Bourlard-Collin, Simone et al. [Marseille], Vieille Charité, [1982], cat. no. 3-13, repr.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 547.

2004

Delannoy, Agnès. Maurice Denis. Paris, Editions Cercle d'Art, 2004, no. 55, 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. 384, col. repr.

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