The Menard Art Museum (メナード美術館) is a

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

located in

Komaki is a city located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 148,872 in 68,174 households, and a population density of . The total area of the city was . Komaki is commonly associated with the former Komaki Airport, whic ...

Aichi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefectur ...

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. The museum was founded by the owners of Nippon Menard Cosmetic Co. and opened in 1987. Art works in the permanent collection include "''Portrait of Jeanne Martin in hat adorned with rose''" by

Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Born ...

(1881), and "''Man in a Field or Evening, the End of the Day''" (1889) by Dutch painter

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. The museum has a large collection of Japanese paintings of the 19th and 20th centuries. On display are both works of art in traditional Japanese style of painting (''

Nihonga ''Nihonga'' (, "Japanese-style paintings") are Japanese paintings from about 1900 onwards that have been made in accordance with traditional Japanese artistic conventions, techniques and materials. While based on traditions over a thousand years ...

''), as well as images that have been influenced by Western art movements (''

Yōga is a style of artistic painting in Japan, typically of Japanese subjects, themes, or landscapes, but using Western (European) artistic conventions, techniques, and materials. The term was coined in the Meiji period (1868–1912) to distingu ...

''). Paintings in traditional Japanese style are by

Tawaraya Sōtatsu was a Japanese furniture designer and painter of the Rinpa school. Sōtatsu is best known for his decorations of calligraphic works by his partner Hon'ami Kōetsu (1558–1637), and his spectacular and highly influential ''byōbu'' folding s ...

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, Katsushika Oi,

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, Kobayashi Kokei, Yasuda Yukihiko,

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, Murakami Kagaku, Okumura Togyū, Fukuda Heihachirō, Hayami Gyoshū,

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, Takayama Tatsuo, Kayama Matazō and Hirayama Ikuo. Among the Western influenced artists found in the collection are

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Okada Saburōsuke Okada Saburōsuke (Japanese: 岡田三郎助; 12 January 1869, Saga – 23 September 1939, Tokyo) was a Japanese painter in the Yōga style and a professor at the "Tōkyō Bijutsu Gakkō" (School of Fine Arts); precursor of the Tokyo University ...

, Yasui Sōtarō, Umehara Ryūzaburō, Kuniyoshi Yasuo,

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, Yamaguchi Takeo,

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Nakamura Tsune (3 July 1887 – 24 December 1924) was a Japanese yōga painter best known for his portraits of Sōma Toshiko including ''Girl, Shojo'' (1914). Life Nakamura Tsune was born in 1887 in what is now Mito City, into a family that had served ...

, Kanji Maeta, Saeki Yūzō and Koide Narashige.

Collection

File:Édouard Manet - Portrait de Jeanne Martin au Chapeau orné d'une Rose.jpg, ''Portrait of Jeanne Martin in hat adorned with rose'' by Manet (1881) File:Vincent van Gogh - Evening, The End of the Day (after Millet).jpg, ''Man in a Field or Evening, the End of the Day'' by van Gogh (1889)

External links

* Komaki Art museums and galleries in Aichi Prefecture Art museums and galleries established in 1987 1987 establishments in Japan {{Japan-art-display-stub