Tethered Hawks

probably 19th century

Not on view

Soga Chokuan became famous for his meticulously brushed paintings of hawks and eagles, often shown tethered to their roosts, as here. While this painting closely resembles the compositions of the Momoyama master of avian depictions, close examination of the brushwork suggests that is a much later copy.

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Title: Tethered Hawks
Artist: After Soga Chokuan (Japanese, active ca. 1596–1615)
Period: Edo (1615–1868)–Meji period (1868–1912
Date: probably 19th century
Culture: Japan
Medium: Six-panel folding screen; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Image (each panel): 50 1/4 × 21 3/8 in. (127.6 × 54.3 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Charles Stewart Smith Collection, Gift of Mrs. Charles Stewart Smith, Charles Stewart Smith Jr., and Howard Caswell Smith, in memory of Charles Stewart Smith, 1914
Object Number: 14.76.67a–l
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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