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Émile-Auguste Carolus-Duran

Lille, 1838 - Paris, 1917

Mother and Children (Madame Feydeau and Her Children)

Date	1897
Materials and Techniques	oil on canvas
Size（cm）	190.5 x 127.8
Inscriptions	Signed and dated lower right: Carolus-Duran / Paris. 1897.; inscribed on a white label on the reverse: Durand / Mme Feydeau et ses Enfants / no. 35; marked in stencil on the stretcher: 35
Credit Line	Matsukata Collection
Standard ref.	M203
Category	Paintings
Collection Number	P.1959-0091

This work depicts Carolus-Duran's daughter, Marianne Carolus-Duran and her children. She was the wife of Georges Feydeau, who was known as a playwright and collector of works by the Impressionist, and the Nabis. This work, with its captivating blend of Impressionist brushwork and traditional Academic methods that palpably render the subject, can be seen as a typical example of the "Salon paintings" that attracted general popular approval. This period was remarkable for the rise of various groups who opposed the considerable Impressionist influence upon the painting community. Many of the Salon painters who represented the mainstream artistic world experimented with Academic compromises while partially imbibing the forms of the Impressionists. The triangular form of the clothed mother and children dominating the center of this composition conveys the familial harmony idealized by the materialist bourgeoisie of the day. Carolus-Duran's characteristic use of a simple contrasting palette can be seen in Madame Feydeau's black dress and the red flower on her breast, and the white dressed girl with her pale yellow flower. Reflecting the not inconsiderable interest in Spain found in 19th century French art, black was one of the artist's favorite colors, and his close friend Manet's love of the effects of black is well known. (Source: Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2009, cat. no. 99)

Provenance

M. Knoedler & Co., Paris, stock no. 2302, where purchased by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, 10 November 1921 [see M. Knoedler & Co. records, in The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (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

1960: The Masterpieces of the Ex-Matsukata Collection, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 14 May 1960 - 10 July 1960, cat. no. 36
1962: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Hakutsuru Museum, Kobe, 20 October 1962 - 5 November 1962, P-138
1962: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Art Gallery of Aichi Prefecture, Nagoya, 17 November 1962 - 9 December 1962, cat. no. 21 (当館記録による）
1963: The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Shimane Prefectural Museum, Matsue, 5 October 1963 - 20 October 1963, P-138
1963: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume, 26 October 1963 - 10 November 1963, P-138
1964: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Nakajima Sports Center of Hokkaido Prefecture, 22 August 1964 - 13 September 1964, cat. no. 39
1965: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Kanazawa, 22 September 1965 - 10 October 1965, cat. no. 37
1965: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Okayama Prefecture, Okayama, 20 October 1965 - 7 November 1965, cat. no. 37
1966: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Wakayama, 15 October 1966 - 4 November 1966, cat. no. 33
1966: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Oita Prefecture, Oita, 12 November 1966 - 27 November 1966, cat. no. 33
1967: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Kagoshima Municipal Museum of Art, 28 April 1967 - 21 May 1967, cat. no. 33
1968: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Niigata Prefectural Museum, Niigata, 14 July 1968 - 4 August 1968, cat. no. 41
1968: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art, Hiroshima, 26 October 1968 - 17 November 1968, cat. no. 41
1969: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Ibaraki Prefecture, Mito, 22 November 1969 - 21 December 1969, cat. no. 39
1970: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Nagasaki Prefectural Museum, Nagasaki, 18 October 1970 - 15 November 1970, cat. no. 7
1971: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Toyama Prefectural Center, Museum of Art, Toyama, 2 October 1971 - 24 October 1971, cat. no. 7
1972: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Shinano Museum of Art of Nagano Prefecture, Nagano, 12 October 1972 - 5 November 1972, cat. no. 7
1973: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Kochi Prefecture, Kochi, 28 October 1973 - 25 November 1973, cat. no. 6
1974: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Cultural Center of Fukuoka Prefecture, Fukuoka, 13 October 1974 - 10 November 1974, cat. no. 6
1974: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Saga Prefectural Museum, Saga, 16 November 1974 - 1 December 1974, cat. no. 6
1975: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Yamagata Museum, Yamagata, 1 November 1975 - 30 November 1975, cat. no. 6
1976: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Tottori Prefectural Museum, Tottori, 9 October 1976 - 7 November 1976, cat. no. 41
1977: [Tour Exhibition] The Matsukata Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, The Nara Prefectural Museum, Nara, 15 October 1977 - 13 November 1977, cat. no. 41
1978: [Tour Exhibition] Masterpieces from the National Museum of Western Art, The Art Center of Oita Prefecture, Oita, 20 December 1978 - 31 January 1979, cat. no. 40
1983: L'Académie du Japon moderne et les peinters français, Bredgestone Museum of Art, 15 September 1983 - 23 October 1983, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, 29 October-23 November; Ehime Prefectural Art Museum, 29 November-25 December; Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, 7-29 January, cat. no. 136, col. repr.
1986: Kindai Nihon no Yoga to Seiyo, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 15 August 1986 - 26 September 1986
1989: The Old Matsukata Collection, Kobe City Museum, 14 September 1989 - 26 November 1989, cat. no. 32, col. repr.
1997: Expressiveness of Materials, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 19 April 1997 - 22 June 1997, cat. no. 21
2016: Modern Beauty: Art and Fashion in France, Pola Museum of Art, Hakone (Kanagawa), 19 March 2016 - 4 September 2016, cat. no. P28, col. repr.
2019: The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey: Upon the 60th Anniversary of the NMWA, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11 June 2019 - 23 September 2019, cat. no. 101, col. repr.

Bibliography

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-138.
1979: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 34, repr.
1983: Catalogue de l'exposition: L'Académie du Japon moderne et les peinters français (exh. cat.). Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation; Mie Prefectual Art Museum, eds. [Tokyo], Tokyo Shimbun, 1983, pp. 111, 139, cat. no. 136, col. repr.
1986: Western Painting and Modern Western Style Painting in Japan: One Sentury from Imitaition to Creation (exh. cat.). Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, ed. Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, 1986, p. 55, cat. no. 17, repr.
1989: The Old Matsukata Collection (exh. cat.). Kobe City Museum, ed. [Kobe], "Matsukata Collection Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1989, pp. 30, 163, cat. no. 32, col. repr.
1990: The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 347.
2006: Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2006 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 99, col. repr.
2009: Masterpieces of The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art; Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2009, no. 99, col. repr.
2013: Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 102, col. repr.
2016: Modern Beauty: Art and Fashion in France (exh. cat.). Pola Museum of Art, ed. Hakone-machi(Kanagawa), PolaMuseum of Art, Pola Art Foundation, 2016, p. 55, cat. no. P28, 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. 203, col. repr.
2019: The Matsukata Collection: A One-Hundred-Year Odyssey (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of the Western Art, Tokyo; Yomiuri Shimbun; NHK; NHK Promotions, 2019, pp. 186, 190, 366, cat. no. 101, col. repr.

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