PaintingsJapanese18th century

Landscape (left screen)

early to mid-18th century

Artists

Watanabe Shikō 渡辺始興Artist

Classification

Paintings

Medium

Left screen of a pair of six-fold screens; ink, color, and gold leaf on paper.

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Century

18th century

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Asian Art

Dimensions

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

[HOSOMI Minoru, Osaka, Japan (by 1989)], sold; to Robert and Betsy Feinberg, Bethesda, MD (1989-2017), gift; to Harvard Art Museums.

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