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On Display

Permanent collection

Pieter Brueghel, the Younger

1564/1565 - 1637/1638

Winter Landscape with Bird Trap

Materials and Techniques oil on panel
Size(cm) 40.6 x 56.8
Credit Line Ex-Matsukata Collection
Standard ref. M190
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.2005-0002

Provenance

Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe; pledged by Matsukata to save his business, Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd., Kobe and then seized by Jugo Bank, Tokyo, 1927; 4th Matsukata sale, Tokyo, 7–24 May 1931, lot 23, repr.; sale, Sotheby's, New York, ‘Old Master Paintings’, 27 May 2004, lot 20; De Jonckheere Gallery, Paris/Bruxelles; purchased by NMWA, 2006.

Exhibition History

1931
The 4th Exhibition of the Matsukata Collection, Tokyo-fu Bijutsukan, 7 May 1931 - 24 May 1931, cat. no. 23, repr.
1957
Ex-Matsukata Collection, Nihonbashi Shirokiya, 9 April 1957 - 28 April 1957, cat. no. 13, 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. 139, col. repr.

Bibliography

1990
The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 1683.
2006
Kyu Matsukata Collection, San-itsu Brueghel Kikoku, Chonan no Mosha, Kokuritsu Seiyo Bijutsukan ga Kounyu. Yomiuri Shimbun. 23 August 2006, Evening edition, p. 1.
2006
Kofuku, Akira (contributor). San-itsu Brueghel Kikoku. Yomiuri Shimbun. 24 August 2006, Morning edition, p. 17.
2007
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 40 (Apr. 2005-Mar. 2006), 2007, Kofuku, Akira. New Acquisitions. pp. 11-13, List of New Acquisitions. p. 63, repr.
2013
Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 27, col. repr.
2018
Kofuku, Akira. Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Paintings, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. [Tokyo], The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; The Western Art Foundation, 2018, pp. 69-71, no. 17, 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. 190, 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. 236-237, 373, cat. no. 139, col. repr.

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