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Identification and Creation

Object Number
TL42642.16
People
Mori Sosen 森狙仙, Japanese (Nagasaki or Nishinomiya 1747 - 1821)
Title
Deer Washing a Fawn
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
fan, painting
Date
before 1806
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/340572

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Folding fan; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions
image only: H. 17.4 × W. 47 cm (6 7/8 × 18 1/2 in.)
max. with mount, opened: H. 31.3 × W. 47.5 cm (12 5/16 × 18 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • signature: 祖仙 [Sosen]
  • seal: square intaglio: 守象 [Shushō]

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg
Object Number
TL42642.16
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • The Flowering of Edo Period Painting: Japanese Masterworks from the Feinberg Collection, exh. cat., Yomiuri Shinbunsha (Tokyo, 2013), p. 113, cat. 51
  • Rachel Saunders and Yukio Lippit, Painting Edo: Selections from the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 2020), p. 79, fig. 69
  • Rachel Saunders, ed., Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 215-216, cat. 216

Exhibition History

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