Art Institute of Chicago
Searching for Fireflies
Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信LinkedCulture matchlcp-c266ffe5d240
- Date
- 1768
- Medium
- Color woodblock print, chūban
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Arts of Asia
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 77297
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
In this print, the complete absence of shadows or shading is a sign that the artist had not yet captured or become interested in the nuances of realistically presenting scenes set at specific times of day or night. The standing girl holds a lantern while the other one kneels by a cage for the fireflies.
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- Frederick Standish Colburn (1878–1957), Evanston, IL; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1952.From a group of 120 prints in the Frederick S. Colburn collection donated (?) to the AIC in 1952.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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