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Vertical landscape of tall pine trees at the bottom cascading up into a mountainous landscape.　

A small house is tucked into the landscape, revealing only its deck behind the tree canopy, in middle bottom half. A solitary man walks along a low walking bridge in lower right. The hint of a small village is painted with light ink near the center, mid-way up the mountain, along the contour of a rocky edge. Negative space along the right suggests a body of water. Rendered without color, dark inks define rich textures and contours of the mountainous land, trees, and shrubs. Calligraphy in upper left with a red artist’s seal, a second seal near lower right

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2018.351
People
Sakaki Hyakusen 彭城百川, Japanese (1697 - 1752)
Title
River Landscape
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting, hanging scroll
Date
April 1752
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/340434

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions
painting proper: H. 97.1 × W. 37.3 cm (38 1/4 × 14 11/16 in.)
overall mounting, including roller ends and suspension cord: H. 198.1 × W. 57.5 cm (78 × 22 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • seal: of artist; top left; square, intaglio: 彭眞淵印 [Hō Shin'en in]
  • seal: bottom right; rectangular, relief: 乘蓮 [Jōren]
  • signature: 壬申夏四月作桂軒雅伯彭蓬洲寫 [Painted for Keiken Gahaku in summer, fourth month of the stem year Jinshin (mizunoe-
    saru; 1752), Hō Hōshū sha]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[David Newman, London (1988)], sold; to Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg, Bethesda, MD (1988-2018), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2018.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg
Accession Year
2018
Object Number
2018.351
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Special Issue: Sakaki Hyakusen, Nanga kansho, vol. 8, no. 4, 1939, p. 47
  • James Cahill, The Painting Style of Sakaki Hyakusen (II) - Landscape and Figure-in-Landscape Compositions, Bijutsushi (Kyoto, Japan, 1978), 105, p. 17
  • James Cahill, Sakaki Hyakusen and early Nanga painting (Berkeley, CA, 1983), fig. 55
  • Rachel Saunders, ed., Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 92-93, cat. 83

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/01/2016 - 06/09/2017

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