4.2024: Roosters and Hens

Identification and Creation

Object Number

4.2024

People

Itō Shochū 伊藤処冲, Japanese (dates unknown; active late 18th to early 19th century)

Title

Roosters and Hens

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting, screen

Date

late 18th to early 19th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, Japan

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Culture

Japanese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/340553

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Two-panel folding screen; ink and colors on paper

Dimensions

image only, each panel: 112 x 50 cm (44 1/8 x 19 11/16 in.)
with mount: 171 x 188 cm (67 5/16 x 74 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• seal: lower right of right panel and upper left of left panel; square, intaglio : 藤処冲印 [Tō Shochū in]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

T. Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts, Kyoto (by 1997), sold; to Robert Feinberg, Maryland (1997-2024), long-term loan; to Harvard Art Museums.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg

Accession Year

2024

Object Number

4.2024

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Two individual panels, each with a rooster and hen.

Publication History

• Rachel Saunders, ed., Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 197-198, cat. 197

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/04/2023 - 12/04/2023

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