Matsuda Reiko

"Matsuda Reiko" (1942) is a named Japanese portrait — a woman identified by her full Japanese name, suggesting a specific individual known to Jacoulet. His named Japanese portraits are among his most intimate works, produced outside the ethnographic framework that structures his Pacific and continental Asian subjects. Matsuda Reiko's portrait would have been made at the artist's Tokyo studio, in the context of the close relationships he maintained with Japanese artistic and social circles throughout his life.