- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- TL42096.11
- People
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Yamamoto Baiitsu 山本梅逸, Japanese (Nagoya 1783 - 1856 Nagoya)
- Title
- Broken Branches Drawn from Life
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting, handscroll
- Date
- 1835
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/340344
- Location
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Level 2, Room 2600, East Asian Art, East Asian Painting and Decorative Arts
View this object's location on our interactive map - Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Handscroll; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- painting proper: H. 28.1 × L. 593.7 cm (11 1/16 × 233 3/4 in.)
silk mount: H. 29.7 × L. 679.7 cm (11 11/16 × 267 5/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- signature: end of scroll: 天保乙未夏四月梅逸山本亮寫 [Summer, fourth month of the Otsubi stem year (kinoto- hitsuji; 1835) of the Tenpo era, painted by Baiitsu Yamamoto Ryō]
- seal: upper; square, intaglio: 山本亮印 [Yamamoto Ryō in]
- seal: lower; square, relief: 玉禅居士 [Gyokuzen Kōji
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg
- Object Number
- TL42096.11
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Musée Cernuschi, Le Japon au fil des saisons: Collection Robert et Betsy Feinberg, exh. cat., Paris-Musées (Paris, 2014), pp. 114-117
Rachel Saunders, ed., Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 21-22, cat. 7
- Exhibition History
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Celebrated Four Seasons: An Aspect of Japanese Paintings from the 16th to 19th Centuries, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, 04/27/1996 - 06/09/1998
32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/29/2021 - 07/17/2022
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