Art Institute of Chicago
Beauty and Morning Glories
Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信 (Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770)LinkedCulture matchlcp-c266ffe5d240
- Date
- Mid-18th century
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; hashira-e
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 109392
A young woman just out of her bath stands barefoot in a room opening onto a veranda. As she places a comb in her hair, she gazes at a casual but careful display of morning glories (asagao) growing in a flat box and trained over a small bamboo trellis. This print is a pillar picture (hashira-e), so called because it is the perfect size to be pasted onto an architectural pillar (hashira) for display in a home, restaurant, or other public or private space.
The authoritative record is held by Art Institute of Chicago. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Get printable QR codesHide QR codes
Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.
Provenance & credit
As published by the source institution. Coverage varies — not every institution's open-data feed includes ownership history.
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gaylord Donnelley
Linked open data
Authority identifiers that link this record into the wider web of cultural data — stable references you can follow to the source.
- Object type
- AAT300041273
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Art Institute of Chicago and other institutions.