Updated 08 April 2025
Currently not on display
Photo by (c) Norihiro Ueno
Currently not on display
La Bacchante
| Date | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Materials and Techniques | bronze |
| Size（cm） | 83 x 52 x 22 |
| Inscriptions | Signed and titled back of base: La Bacchante / BOURDELLE; Foundry mark lower right base: Alexis Rudier/ Fondeur. Paris |
| Credit Line | Matsukata Collection |
| Standard ref. | M1217 |
| Category | Sculptures |
| Collection Number | S.1959-0055 |
Provenance
Ordered from artist by Kojiro Matsukata, Kobe through Léonce Bénédite, ca. May 1921 (Fr. 10,000) [see letter from Bénédite to Emille Bourdelle, dated 14 May 1921, in Archives of Musée Bourdelle, 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
- 1968
- Bourdelle, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 7 July 1968 - 25 August 1968, Kyoto National Museum, 8 September – 27 October 1968, cat. no. 58
- 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. 86, col. repr.
Bibliography
- 1990
- The Old Matsukata Collection. Kobe City Museum, ed. Kobe, "Matsukata Korekushon Ten" Jikkoiinkai, 1990, cat. no. S-3.
- 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. 170, 172, 273, 363, cat. no. 86, D10-16, 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. 1217, col. repr.