Three bearded Chinese male figures in flowing robes stand in golden clouds with two flying geese.　
left screen overall Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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left screen overall Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

Drawn by ink lines on neutral-colored paper, each figure stands in a separate panel. The two men near left face each other, a man on left floats higher than the other holding something round under his sleeves. The man in the middle holds out a vessel with vapor emanating from it. A third man standing on a flying goose holds up a vertical form looking at it, he and the goose face toward right in three-quarter view. The two end panels are blank except for continuation of clouds. A goose flies off in the second panel from the right.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.223.2
People
Goshun 呉春 (Matsumura Gekkei 松村月渓), Japanese (Owari 1752 - 1811)
Title
Seven Chinese Immortals (left 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/357595

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Left 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
2017.223.2
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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