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Currently not on display

Gustave Dore

Strasbourg, 1832 - Paris, 1883

La Siesta, Memory of Spain

Date c. 1868
Materials and Techniques oil on canvas
Size(cm) 278.1 x 191.8
Inscriptions Signed lower left: Gve. Dore
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.2005-0007

Provenance

Christie's, London, 29 November 1991, lot. 50; Ishizuka Collection, Tokyo; Purchased by the NMWA, 2006.

Exhibition History

1868
Salon de 1868, Paris, 0  1868 - 0  1868, no. 818
2023
Imaged and Imagined: Spain Seen through Prints from Japanese Collections, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, 8 April 2023 - 11 June 2023, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 4 July-3 September, pp. 18-19, 194, cat. no. 0

Bibliography

2005
Sanchez, Pierre; Seydoux, Xavier. Les Catalogues des Salons. vol. 9, Paris, L'Echelle de Jacob, 2005, cat. no. 818
2007
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 40 (Apr. 2005-Mar. 2006), 2007, Takahashi, Akiya. New Acquisitions. pp. 27-28, 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. 82, col. repr.
2023
Imaged and Imagined: Spain Seen through Prints from Japanese Collections (exh. cat.). Kawase, Yusuke; Inaba, Yuta; Nakada, Asuka et al., eds. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2023,  pp. 18-19, 194, cat. no. 0, col. repr.

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