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Collection Online as of March 26, 2023

Courtesan

early 1800s

Gion Seitoku 祇園 井特

(Japanese, active late 1700s–early 1800s)

Japan, Edo period

(1615-1868)

Hanging scroll, pillar painting; ink and color paper

Overall: 194.3 x 18.6 cm (76 1/2 x 7 5/16 in.); Painting only: 126.5 x 13.3 cm (49 13/16 x 5 1/4 in.)

The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.272

Location

not on view

Description

This narrow hanging scroll, known as a pillar painting, is similar to the format of Shigemasa’s Two Beauties (see 1985.274).

Inscriptions

Inscription

artist's signature and two seals upper right side.

Provenance
(Kozo Yabumoto, Hyogo, Japan, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith)
?-1985
The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899-1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1985-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
“Checklist of the Kelvin Smith Bequest.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 75, no. 7, 1988, pp. 292–295. Mentioned: p. 294 www.jstor.org
Exhibition history

A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1985.272