Updated 08 April 2025
Currently not on display
Currently not on display
The Seine at La Bouille
| Date | c. 1904-10 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | oil on canvas |
| Size（cm） | 46.1 x 86 |
| Inscriptions | Signed lower right: a. Lebourg |
| Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | M643 |
| Category | Paintings |
| Collection Number | P.1959-0120 |
Lebourg first studied architecture but then turned to painting after he was strongly influenced by his first sight of an exhibition of Courbet's works in Paris. He taught design for five years in Algiers in North Africa beginning in 1872 and received wide support as an Impressionist painter upon his return to Paris. He liked to paint scenes of the great rivers, ocean and sky, and this work is a fascinating example of an academic style created with Impressionist methods. (Source: The Digital Gallery. 1999-2006)
Provenance
Purchased by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. June 1920 (Fr. 7,500) [see letter from Léonce Bénédite to Suzuki & Co., dated 4 June 1920, 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
- 1923
- Albert Le Bourg, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 0 1923 - 0 1923
- 1949
- Musée d'Art Moderne, Vienne, 0 1949 - 0 1949
- 1958
- Paysage de France, Musée de Rouen, 0 1958 - 0 1958, cat. no. 114
- 1989
- The French Modern Painting, from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Miyakonojo City Museum, 15 April 1989 - 14 May 1989, cat. no. 13, repr.
- 2010
- Image of the Seine: Impressionists and Japanese Painters, The Bridgestone Museum of Art, 30 October 2010 - 23 December 2010, Hiroshima Museum of Art, 2011年1月3日-2月27日, cat. no. 5-3, col. repr.
Bibliography
- 1923
- Bénédite, L. Albert Lebourg. Paris, 1923, p. 302.
- 1955
- La Collection Matsukata, Tokyo, Asahi- Shimbun, 1955 (Japanese), no. 35, 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-175.
- 1979
- The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of Paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 153, repr.
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 918.
- 1992
- The French Modern Art, from The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.). The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, ed. Okinawa, Urasoe Art Museum, 1992, p.22, cat. no. 12, col. repr.
- 2010
- Image of the Seine: Impressionists and Japanese Painters(exh. cat.). [Tokyo], Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation: [Hiroshima], Hirosima Museum of Art, c2010, cat. no. 5-3, 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. 643, col. repr.