Album of 119 Small Paintings by Edo-Period Artists

late 19th century

Not on view

This album comprises 119 small paintings, most are the size of a shikishi (square poem card), each about 6 3/4 x 6 inches. The array of painters, mostly of eighteenth and nineteenth century, is impressive, but the works ascribed to famous artists such as Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige, and Tani Bunchō, et al, seem to be copies by one or more talented painters. Some of the works by lesser known artists may turn out to be genuine. It seems to have been compiled as a history of various schools of Edo painting.

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Title: Album of 119 Small Paintings by Edo-Period Artists
Artist: Various artists
Period: Edo (1615–1868)–Meiji (1868–1912) period
Date: late 19th century
Culture: Japan
Medium: Album with 119 leaves; each ink and/or color on silk/or paper
Dimensions: Average size: 6 3/4 x 6 in. (17.1 x 15.2 cm)
Leaf 1: 8 13/16 x 12 5/16 in. (20.8 x 31.2cm); Leaves 2 thru 118: 6 13/16 x 5 7/8 in. (17.3 x 15cm)
Leaf 119: 6 13/16 x 11 15/16 in. (17.3 x 30.3 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929
Object Number: 29.100.1400a–dd
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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