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Artist:
Tosa school  Search this
Medium:
Ink, color and gold on paper
Dimensions:
H x W (.128): 155 x 361.1 cm (61 x 142 3/16 in)
H x W (.129): 155 x 361.9 cm (61 x 142 1/2 in)
Type:
Painting
Origin:
Japan
Date:
1615-1868
Period:
Edo period
School/Tradition:
Tosa
Label:
In these screens flower beds stretch in narrow, undulating bands across a ground of gold leaf unadorned except for hovering insects. The sparse composition echoes in much larger scale an established style of floral under-painting rendered on paper intended for use in handscrolls of imperial poetry anthologies, on which a calligrapher would inscribe the poems in the empty spaces. The paintings are probably the work of an unidentified artist of the Tosa school of court painters, based in Kyoto.
Provenance:
To 1907
Unidentified owner, Tokyo, Japan, to 1907 [1]
From 1907 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased in Tokyo, Japan, from an unidentified owner in 1907 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Screen List, S.I. 134, pg. 36, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[2] See note 1.
[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
Japanese Screens (March 2007 to January 3, 2016)
Previous custodian or owner:
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
Topic:
insect  Search this
flower  Search this
Edo period (1615 - 1868)  Search this
Japan  Search this
Japanese Art  Search this
Charles Lang Freer collection  Search this
Credit Line:
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Accession Number:
F1907.128-129
Restrictions & Rights:
CC0
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
Data Source:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye35f98d85b-7f36-4595-af5d-f9650121cf5b
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:fsg_F1907.128-129