Rooster, Hen, and Chicks

Calligrapher Minagawa Kien　皆川淇園 Japanese

late 1780s

Not on view

The rooster, representative of the patriarchal head of the family—per the Confucian ideal—was a popular subject in Chinese and Japanese painting of the premodern era. Here, the birds are silhouetted in negative white against a background of gray ink wash. Together with Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800) and Soga Shōhaku (1730–1781), Rosetsu was known as one of the “Three Eccentrics” (san kijin) of eighteenth-century Kyoto. He studied with Maruyama Ōkyo (1733–1795), founder of Kyoto’s Maruyama school.

Artwork Details

白鶏図
Title: Rooster, Hen, and Chicks
Artist: Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪 (Japanese, 1754–1799)
Calligrapher: Minagawa Kien　皆川淇園 (Japanese, 1734–1807)
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Date: late 1780s
Culture: Japan
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions: Image: 49 1/8 x 10 3/4 in. (124.8 x 27.3 cm)
Overall with mounting: 81 1/4 x 11 7/8 in. (206.4 x 30.2 cm)
Overall with knobs: 81 1/4 x 13 7/8 in. (206.4 x 35.2 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975
Object Number: 1975.268.74
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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