Provenance

Puchased from the artist for 2,500 fr. by Galerie E. Druet, Paris ca. October 1919, stock no. 9072 [see records in the Archives Catalogue raisonné Maurice Denis, Saint-Germain-en-Laye]; purchased from Galerie E. Druet by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, ca. December 1921 [see letters dated 10 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

1924

XIVª Esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia, 0  1924 - 0  1924, cat. p. 179, no. 30

1981

Maurice Denis, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1 September 1981 - 18 October 1981, cat. no. 75

1989

The French Modern Painting, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Miyakonojo City Museum, 15 April 1989 - 14 May 1989, cat. no. 18, repr.

1997

Expressiveness of Materials, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 17 April 1997 - 22 June 1997, cat. no. 41

Bibliography

1924

XIVª Esposizione internazionale d'arte della città di Venezia, 1924: Catalogo, 2nd ed., [Venezia, 1924], p. 177, cat. no. 30

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-103.

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 92, repr.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 553.

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. 390, col. repr.

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