Image: Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo
The Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts has loaned works from its collection to the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo for the exhibition 'Rembrandt the Printmaker: Challenge, Continuity, Impact'. The loan includes pieces by Jules Jacquemart and Théodore Ribot, placing material from Machida’s holdings in a venue that is not its usual setting.
According to the museum’s announcement, the works are part of the ongoing Rembrandt-focused exhibition at the National Museum of Western Art. The museum framed the loan as an opportunity for visitors to encounter its collection in an unusual venue, highlighting the circulation of prints between institutions in the city.
The title of the host exhibition points to Rembrandt’s role as a printmaker and to the longer history of printmaking after him. While the source material does not detail the specific works on view, it identifies Jacquemart and Ribot among the artists represented in the loan from Machida’s collection.
The Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, based in Tokyo, focuses on graphic art and print culture, making loans of this kind a direct extension of its collecting and exhibition mission. In this case, the museum’s materials are being shown within a major national institution rather than at Machida itself.
No dates were provided for the loan beyond the fact that the Rembrandt exhibition is ongoing. The museum’s notice directs visitors to see the collection at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, where the borrowed works are part of 'Rembrandt the Printmaker: Challenge, Continuity, Impact'.
