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Provenance

Acquired from the artist by Narcisse Virgile Diaz de la Peña, by 1850; purchased by Paul Tesse at his sale, 4 April 1861, lot 44 ('Arabe et son cheval'); Edwin Edwards; purchased by A. Hartmann, Münster at his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7 March 1870, lot 13, repr.; his sale (M.A.H.), Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10 February 1873, lot 59; Van Praet (died in 1898), Bruxelles (Archives Goupil/Boussod), January 1888; with Henri Garnier; purchased from the above by Boussod, Valadon & Cie, 11 January 1893; purchased from the above by B. Perkins of New York, 8 March 1893 (Archives Goupil/Boussod); purchased at his sale, Paris, 19 June 1899, lot 8, repr. by Haro; Paul Cassirer, Berlin [gallery label on the reverse]; Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe, by 1922; pledged by Matsukata to save his business, Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd., Kobe and then seized by Jugo Bank, 1927, no. 608 [Jugo Bank label on the reverse]; 3rd Matsukata sale, Tokyo, 17 May–4 July 1930, lot 29; Kyūzaemon Wada, Kobe, by ca. 1940; Fujikawa Gallery, Osaka; private collection, London; Wildenstein, New York, by 1978; purchased by NMWA, 2014.

Exhibition History

1830

(?) Catalogue des tableaux et objets d'art exposé dans le Musée Colbert, Musée Colbert, Paris, 0 February 1830 - 0 February 1830, no. 193 ('Arabe bédouin et son cheval')

1849

Salon de 1849, Palais de Tuileries, Paris, 0  1849 - 0  1849, no. 508

1860

Tableaux tirés du collections d'amateurs, 26 boulevard des Italiens, Paris, printemps, 0  1860 - 0  1860, no. 173

1922

Masterpieces of the Matsukata Collection, The Mainichi Newspapers, Osaka, 0  1922 - 0  1922, cat. no. 17, repr.

1957

La collection Matsukata 1957, Nihombashi Shirokiya, Tokyo, 9 April 1957 - 28 April 1957, cat. no. 41, repr.

1989

The Old Matsukata Collection, Kobe City Museum, 14 September 1989 - 26 November 1989, cat. no. 3, col. repr.

2001

Les orientalistes chez Courbet, Musée Courbet, Ornans, 23 June 2001 - 1 October 2001, cat. no. 32, col. repr.

2015

Bordeaux: Port de la Lune, Fukuoka City Museum, Fukuoka, 31 January 2015 - 29 March 2015, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 23 June-23 September

2017

Théodore Chassériau: parfum exotique, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 28 February 2017 - 28 May 2017, cat. no. 75.

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. 142, col. repr.

Bibliography

1849

Peisse, L. Salon de 1849. Le Constitutionnel. 8 July 1849, p. 1.

1849

Gautier, T. Salon de 1849. La Presse. 1 August 1849, p. 2.

1849

Cailleux, L. Salon de 1849. Le Temps. 29 June 1849.

1849

Champfleury. Salon de 1849. La Shilhouette. 15 July 1849 , p. 169.

1860

Astruc, Zacharie. Le salon intime: exposition au boulevard des Italiens. Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1860, p. 37.

1873

Moreau, Adolphe. E. Delacroix et son oeuvre: avec des gravures en fac-similé des planches originales les plus rares. Paris, Librairie des bibliophiles, 1873, pp. 185, 272.

1885

Robaut, Alfred. L'œuvre complet de Eugène Delacroix: peintures, dessins, gravures, lithographies. Paris, Charavay Frères, 1885, p. 285, no. 1075.

1916

Moreau-Nelaton, Etienne. Delacroix, raconté par lui-même. vol. 2, Paris, H. Laurens, 1916, pp. 84, 194.

1929

Escholier, Raymond. Delacroix, peintre, graveur, écrivain. vol. 3, Paris, H. Floury, 1929, p. 143.

1930

Delacroix, Eugène. Journal: 1822-1863: préface de Hubert Damisch, introduction et notes par André Joubin (édition revue par Régis Labourdette). [Paris], Plon, 1930-1931, 1980, pp. 169, 833.

1984

Georgel, Pierre; Bortolatto, Luigina Rossi. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Delacroix: introduction par Pierre Georgel, documentation par Luigina Rossi Bortolatto. revised ed. by Henriette Bessis. Paris, Flammarion, 1984, p. 119, no. 539.

1986

Johnson, Lee. The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue, 1832-1863. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1986, vol. 3, pp. xxiii, 160-161, no. 348, vol. 4, pl. 161.

1990

The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. 537.

2002

Johnson, Lee. The Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: A Critical Catalogue. Fourth Supplement and Reprint of Third Supplement. Oxford/ New York, Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 13, no. 348.

2015

Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 48 (Apr. 2013-Mar. 2014), 2015, Jingaoka, Megumi. New Acquisitions. pp. 8-11, List of New Acquisitions. p. 12, repr.

2017

Théodore Chassériau: Parfum Exotique (exh. cat.). Jingaoka, Megumi; Musée national d'art occidental, Tokyo, eds. Tokyo, Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, 2017, pp. 186-187, 256, cat. no. 75, 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. 376, 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. 242, 246, 373, cat. no. 142, col. repr.

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