Sentry of Bersagliere

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Matsuoka Hisashi

  • Meiji period, 1887
  • oil on canvas

Paintings – Oil Paintings

Important Cultural Property

In this theme of the Sentry of Bersagliere unit that succeeded to repulse the French army invading Italy, perhaps Matsuoka's sympathy towards Italian patriotism achieving the unification of the kingdom and advancing to form a modern state such as Japan, was included. It is his noted lifework created by harmonizing Matsuoka's fresh creative eagerness, passion for creating new people's paintings prevailing in the 19th century Italian art world where Matsuoka studied, and traditional western realistic manner of painting.(「New Edition Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan Vol.2」2003)

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Title/Name Sentry of Bersagliere
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Matsuoka Hisashi
Period/Era Meiji period
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canvas oil painting
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Okayama Tokyo Okayama
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SZK002655
Category PaintingsOil Paintings
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In this theme of the Sentry of Bersagliere unit that succeeded to repulse the French army invading Italy, perhaps Matsuoka's sympathy towards Italian patriotism achieving the unification of the kingdom and advancing to form a modern state such as Japan, was included. It is his noted lifework created by harmonizing Matsuoka's fresh creative eagerness, passion for creating new people's paintings prevailing in the 19th century Italian art world where Matsuoka studied, and traditional western realistic manner of painting.(「New Edition Grace, Beauty and Inqenuity-Masterpices of the Museum of Imperial Collections, Sannomaru Shozokan Vol.2」2003)