Kingfisher and Bamboo

Formerly attributed to Sesshū Tōyō 雪舟等楊 Japanese

19th century

Not on view

Sesshū Tōyō was a highly celebrated medieval Japanese painter specializing in Chinese-style ink painting, and works in his style remained in high demand for centuries after his death at the beginning of the sixteenth century. This nineteenth-century forgery entered The Met's collection in 1914 along with nearly two hundred other Japanese and Chinese artworks from the collection of Charles Stewart Smith (1832–1909), a Trustee of the Museum. Smith was primarily a collector of European paintings but also acquired a large number of Japanese and Chinese works of art during the last two decades of his life, after he and his third wife honeymooned in Japan in 1892.

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Title: Kingfisher and Bamboo
Artist: Formerly attributed to Sesshū Tōyō 雪舟等楊 (Japanese, 1420–1506)
Period: Edo (1615–1868)–Meiji (1868–1912) period
Date: 19th century
Culture: Japan
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions: Image: 10 1/2 × 15 3/4 in. (26.7 × 40 cm)
Overall with mounting: 45 × 20 5/8 in. (114.3 × 52.4 cm)
Overall with knobs: 45 in. × 22 3/8 in. × 1 in (diam. of knobs) . (114.3 × 56.8 × 2.5 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: 14.76.8
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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