2017.224.1: Landscape (right screen)
PaintingsStrong ink lines define the rocky landscape, pine trees, and shrub textures. Gentle lines suggest a body of water from right. A house on the water’s edge near middle-left, faces the viewer with a wide window revealing two people, lightly drawn, seated opposite each other. A few people walk the dirt path on right carrying things, they’re small compared to the vastness of the landscape. A flowing waterfall in the distant middle right cascades into a bubbling stream in lower right below the path. Distant hills blend into rocky section. The vast negative space is rendered in gold leaf.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2017.224.1
- People
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Watanabe Shikō 渡辺始興 (1683 - 1755)
- Title
- Landscape (right screen)
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- screen, painting
- Date
- early to mid-18th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, Japan
- Period
- Edo period, 1615-1868
- Culture
- Japanese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/357600
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Right screen of a pair of six-fold screens; ink, color, and gold leaf on paper.
- Dimensions
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painting proper, each panel: H. 166.5 × W. 64 cm (65 9/16 × 25 3/16 in.)
overall width when spread flat: W. 384 cm (151 3/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- [HOSOMI Minoru, Osaka, Japan (by 1989)], sold; to Robert and Betsy Feinberg, Bethesda, MD (1989-2017), 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
- 2017.224.1
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Yamane Yūzō, Rinpa kaiga zenshu: vol. IV Korin ha II, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan), p. 272, #138
- Kobayashi Tadashi, Rinpa [Rimpa Paintings] vol. III : Landscape, Birds and Animals, Shikosha Publishing Co. (Kyoto, Japan, 1991), plate 74
- Rachel Saunders, ed., Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 196-197, cat. 196
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/10/2022 - 06/04/2023
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Verification Level
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