Four Chinese male figures in robes stand in golden clouds, moving towards the right, one riding a dragon.
right screen overall Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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right screen overall Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

Two men, standing in the third panel from left, walk together toward left, one has his back to us, the other holds up a palm leaf book, his smiling mouth is open. Two figures follow behind them, a young man riding a small dragon holds a small harp-like instrument up to his mouth. An older man stands behind him holding a hooked staff. The dragon is wrapped in a cloud. A lightly drawn deer looks to the right in the clouds near upper right. Clouds are rendered in gold. The two end panels are blank except for continuation of clouds.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.223.1
People
Goshun 呉春 (Matsumura Gekkei 松村月渓), Japanese (Owari 1752 - 1811)
Title
Seven Chinese Immortals (right screen)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
screen, painting
Date
late 18th-early 19th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
Period
Edo period, 1615-1868
Culture
Japanese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/357594

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Right screen of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, gold, and sprinkled gold on paper
Dimensions
painting proper, each panel: 153 × 63.5 cm (60 1/4 × 25 in.)
overall width when spread flat: 381 cm (150 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Harry Packard, Kyoto, Japan, (by 1987)], sold; to Robert and Betsy Feinberg, Bethesda, MD (1987-2017), gift; to Harvard Art Museums.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.223.1
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Rachel Saunders and Yukio Lippit, Painting Edo: Selections from the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, 2020), pp. 80-81, fig. 70
  • Rachel Saunders, ed., Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 60-61, cat. 48

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