Murauchi Art Museum
The Murauchi Art Museum ( Japanese 村内 美術館 , Murauchi Bijutsukan ) is located in Hachiōji , Tokyo Prefecture . The art museum mainly houses French paintings from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
history
The founder of the museum was the entrepreneur Murauchi Michimasa, who made his fortune with a furniture factory. The museum's collection reflects the personal taste of Murauchi, who over the years mainly brought together works from the Barbizon School . This is where the collection differs from other privately founded Japanese art museums, which focus on Western art, mostly on works of Impressionism or modern art. With the opening of the museum in November 1982, Murauchi Michimasa made his private collection accessible to the public.
collection
With a few exceptions, the museum only shows works by French artists. The collection is particularly extensive with works by artists from the Barbizon School. Examples of this are the paintings River Landscape , Forest of Fontainebleau , Cows by the River in the Forest of Fontainbleu and Sunset near Barbizon by Théodore Rousseau , as well as The Lock of Optevoz , On the banks of the Cure , Village near Bonniere and The Gravel Pit of Valmondois by Charles-François Daubigny . Also include La Maison Cabassud, Ville d'Avray , boy with his goat's play , level with a small lock , flute player at the Lake Albano and La Midouze of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot to this group. The museum also owns a portrait of Mademoselle Delalain by Corot .
Jean-François Millet , known for his rural scenes, is represented in the museum with the pastoral pictures of goat girls from Auvergne , shepherds leaning on a stick and two shepherdesses lighting a fire . The Millet Museum also has a portrait of his wife and a portrait of Antoinette Hebert in front of the mirror . Typical landscapes of the Barbizon School are also The Way Back by Constant Troyon , Flock of Sheep on the River by Charles Emile Jacque and Storm, an Evening in Autumn and The Handcart by Jules Dupré .
Landscapes also dominate the paintings by Gustave Courbet in the museum's collection. In addition to a painting from the Ocean Wave series , two pictures show a forest landscape with deer and two pictures show a rural scene with tree motifs. There are also the paintings Lovers in the Country and Woman in a Rowboat by Courbet .
Two Arcadian motifs can be found in the paintings by Narcisso Virgilio Díaz de la Peña . In addition to a portrait of Margueritte , the museum shows Diana and her companions by this artist. The museum shows a monkey hairdresser by the painter Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps , known for his ironic depictions of animals . The flower festival of Adolphe Monticelli and William Adolphe Bouguereau's portrait of the Marquise Montholon , on the other hand, are clearly influenced by academic painting .
The inventory of impressionist painting is much smaller . There is a typical beach scene from Eugène Boudin and from Camille Pissarro with the plain of Eragny with a haystack an equally characteristic landscape representation. The portrait of a young man by Edgar Degas , which can be attributed to the artist's early work, is rather unusual . With the later works Guitar Player and Gabrielle with Jean Renoir and a girl 's Pierre-Auguste Renoir represented in the museum. There is also a portrait of Mary Cassatt with a girl in a red hat . Examples of the following generations of artists are works by Marc Chagall , Marie Laurencin and Moise Kisling .
Coordinates: 35 ° 40 ′ 46 ″ N , 139 ° 20 ′ 11.9 ″ E
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ^ "Le Chêne de Flagey" retrouve ses racines. March 6, 2013, accessed on March 22, 2018 (The painting was sold to the Musée Courbet in Ornans in March 2013 ).