Updated 18 March 2024
Currently not on display
Photo by (c) Norihiro Ueno
Currently not on display
Embracing Bacchantes
| Date | Before 1900 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | bronze |
| Size（cm） | 18 x 16 x 12 |
| Inscriptions | Signed right front of base: A. Rodin; Foundry mark lower right back of base: A. Rudier. Fondeur. Paris |
| Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | M1251 |
| Category | Sculptures |
| Collection Number | S.1959-0003 |
Provenance
Bought from Musée Rodin by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. February 1919, as ‘Trois danseuses. “Damnées” [added in a pencil inscription]’ (Fr. 6,000) [see several letters between Bénédite and Suzuki & Co., February 1919, in Archives of Musée Rodin, Paris; copy in NMWA curatorial files]; 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
- 1966
- Rodin, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 23 July 1966 - 11 September 1966, cat. no. 69
- 1993
- The Art of Grapes and Wines, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Aｒｔ, 22 May 1993 - 22 August 1993, cat. no. 178, col. repr.
Bibliography
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. S-17.
- 1993
- The Art of Grapes and Wines (exh. cat.). Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, ed. Kofu, Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, [1993], pp. 132, 183, cat. no. 178, col. repr.
- 2019
- The Matsukata Collection: Complete Catalogue of the European Art. Kawaguchi, Masako; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. vol. 2: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints and Decorative Arts and Other Works, Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2019, cat. no. 1251, col. repr.