Updated 14 April 2025
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Music
| Date | ca. 1855-56 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | Oil on canvas |
| Size（cm） | 116 x 172 |
| Category | Paintings |
| Collection Number | P.2015-0016 |
Provenance
Commissioned by Jean-François Bartholoni for the Hôtel Custine, 6 rue de La Rochefoucauld, Paris; [unknown location]; collection Kapferer, Paris; Purchased by NMWA, 2016.
Exhibition History
- 1997
- Floating Images of Women in Art History: From the Birth of the Feminism toward the Dissolution of the Gender, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, 20 July 1997 - 28 September 1997, cat. no. 2, col. repr.
- 2017
- [Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017] Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: From the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, 22 April 2017 - 2 July 2017, Akita Museum of Modern Art, 15 July-18 September, cat. no. 34
- 2020
- Metamorphosis of Classicism and Mythological Theme in the Art of 1750s-1980s, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, 8 February 2020 - 22 March 2020, Okazaki Mindscape Museum, 4 April-17 May 2020, cat. no. 28
- 2023
- Another 19th Century: Bouguereau, Millais, and the Academic Painters, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 19 September 2023 - 12 February 2024, cat. no. 4
Bibliography
- 1984
- William Bouguereau, 1825-1905 (exh. cat.). Musée du Petit-Palais, Paris, 9 February - 6 May 1984; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, 22 June - 23 September 1984; The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 27 October 1984 - 13 January 1985. Montréal, Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montŕeal, 1984, p. 49.
- 2010
- Bartoli, Damien; Ross, Frederick. William Bouguereau: Catalogue Raisonné of his Painted Work. New York, Antique Collectors' Club; Woodbridge, the Art Renewal Center, 2010, vol. 2, 1856/02A.
- 2017
- Muse: Women before the Artists' Eyes: from the Collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Traveling Exhibitions Presenting National Art Museum Collections, Fiscal 2017 (exh. cat.). Nakada, Asuka, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2017, pp. 60, 139, cat. no. 34, col. repr.
- 2017
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 50 (Apr. 2015-Mar. 2016), 2017, Jingaoka, Megumi. New Acquisitions. pp. 20-22, List of New Acquisitions. p. 26, col. repr.
- 2019
- Metamorphosis of Classicism and Mythological Theme in the Art of 1750s-1980s(exh. cat.). [Tokyo], Artis Inc., c2019, cat. no. 28, col. repr.