Jumping Fish

Watanabe Seitei Japanese

ca. 1887

Not on view

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Title: Jumping Fish
Artist: Watanabe Seitei (Japanese, 1851–1918)
Period: Meiji period (1868–1912)
Date: ca. 1887
Culture: Japan
Medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk
Dimensions: 13 7/8 x 10 1/2 in. (35.2 x 26.7 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: 14.76.61.75
Curatorial Department: Asian Art

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