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Rodin attempted to sculpt a bust of Victor Hugo, the famous French poet and author. Hugo declined to sit for Rodin, and Rodin obtained permission to work in Hugo's house from February-April 1883 hoping to capture a likeness.
Following the creation of the bronze bust, Rodin produced two drypoint portraits of Hugo (one full-face, the other three-quarter view). [An impression in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay carries a dedication comparing the portrait to Michaelangelo's "Day" in the Medici Chapel in Florence. See Claudie Judrin, "Une gravure unique du Victor Hugo de Rodin," in "Revue du Louvre/La Revue des Musées de France," vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 76-81.]
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Signed on plate, l.c.: AR; lower margin: VICTOR HUGO/Etude à la pointe sèche par M.A. Rodin/Gazette des Beaux-Arts [space] Imp. A. Clément_Paris
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In pencil, lower margin: Eskimo Legend: Owl, fox and hare Skin stencil 30/22 Cape Dorset Baffin Island 1959 Oshaweetuk In print, u.l. and l.r.: red stamps
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Originally from Yamaguchi prefecture (at the far west of Honshû Island), Keigetsu came to Tokyo to study Nihonga ("Japanese-style painting") with Noguchi Yûkoku. He exhibited at the major government-sponsored salons of the day, the Bunten and Nitten, and was elected president of the Nihon Nangain (The Japan Academy of Nanga Painting) and the Nihon Bijutsu Kyôkai (The Association for Japanese Art). At the height of Japanese imperial expansion in East Asia, he traveled to Taiwan twice to judge the painting exhibitions hosted by the colonial government. He was a member of the Art Committee of the Imperial Household, and was honored with the Order of Cultural Merit in 1959. His paintings are in the collections of the Tokyo National Museum, the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, the Mie Prefectural Museum of Art, among other museums in Japan, and several museums in North America.
Image of a green mountain range that snakes from the lower right of the image to the upper right. The lower right of the image is further embellished with several detailed trees. Slightly lower and to the left of center is a small hut with a white figure standing on the porch.
Subject Matter
A part of a pair created by Matsubayashi Keigetsu meant to present the dramatic contrast of summer and winter landscapes. Under the deep blue-green foliage of the summer landscape, a scholar bends his ear to the sound of a rushing stream and gazes out from his hut at the surrounding mist—the promise of more rain to come.
Keigetsu’s romantic idealization of nature draws on centuries of tradition of literati painting in both China and Japan. For scholars and other members of the intelligentsia, nature was a place of psychic refuge—even if only approached through armchair travel.
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In this striking scroll and its pair (1861/2.3), Matsubayashi Keigetsu presents the dramatic contrast of summer and winter landscapes. Under the deep blue-green foliage of the summer landscape, a scholar bends his ear to the sound of a rushing stream and gazes out from his hut at the surrounding mist—the promise of more rain to come. The winter landscape is by contrast a sparse, colorless world: the mountains are covered with snow and the trees are bare, offering small solace to a lone traveler who makes his way through the forest.
Keigetsu’s romantic idealization of nature draws on centuries of tradition of literati painting in both China and Japan. For scholars and other members of the intelligentsia, nature was a place of psychic refuge—even if only approached through armchair travel. Given that Keigetsu was a successful commercial painter in the modern metropolis of Tokyo, who regularly participated in government-sponsored salons, one suspects that his own encounter with nature was the armchair kind.
Maribeth Graybill
“Four Seasons In Japanese Art”: Special Installation of Japanese Gallery at UMMA: Object Labels
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