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A Distant View of Snow on the Sumida River in Edo

early 1830s

Ikeda Eisen 池田英泉

(Japanese, 1790–1848)

Japan, Edo period

(1615-1868)

Color woodblock print

Sheet: 21.6 x 34.8 cm (8 1/2 x 13 11/16 in.)

The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.300

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Signature: Eisen ga Publisher: Kawaguchi Fukusendo han (seals before and after picture title)

Provenance

Worcester Art Museum

Louis W. Black

1976

(Sotheby Parke Bernet, March 4, 1976, lot 203)

1976-?

(R. E. Lewis, Inc., California, 1976-?, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith)

?-1985

The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, ?-1985, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899-1998] given to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1985-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1985-present

Exhibition history

Cleveland Museum of Art, 1988: A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection.

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).