著者

三輪 英夫

雑誌

美術研究 = The bijutsu kenkyu : the journal of art studies

巻号頁・発行日

no.342, pp.16-24, 1988-03-31

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The datable works by Kaneyuki HYAKUTAKE (1842-1884) all belong to the short period from 1975 to 1882, during which he mostly resided in Europe. He studied first under Thomas Miles RICHARDSON Jr. (1813-1890) in London, then under Léon BONNAT (1833-1922) in Paris and finally under Cesare MACCARI (1840-1911) in Rome. Accordingly, he gradually changed his style reflecting the styles of the teachers. However, the change was of positive nature as is seen in “Bonchurch, Isle of Wight” from 1879 and “Pietro Micca” from 1882. The former is a landscape with impressionistic colouring, brushwork and composition, much freer and moderner than those with RICHARDSON's influence. On the other hand, the latter is a history painting whose subject is an Italian hero in the War of the Spanish Succession and its composition is close to “Hercules Overcoming the Nemean Lion” by Peter Paul RUBENS, whose copy by HYAKUTAKE remains. These two works illustrate his shift from impressionistic landscape to the traditional European theme of history painting, which might be taken as a stylistic shift toward the past. The intrinsic reason for it existed in his ideal concerning the assimilation of Western painting. He considered that the assimilation of firm academicism, not of Impressionism, was the first necessity, and “Pietro Micca” was painted uner this conviction. Such an attitude of HYAKUTAKE as a student abroad represents one of the typical views conceived by the Western-method painters in the early Meiji Era.