Cleveland Museum of Art
Two Beauties
Kitao ShigemasaLinkedCulture matchlcp-5d8afe11dc9c
- Date
- late 1700s–early 1800s
- Medium
- hanging scroll, pillar painting: ink and color on silk
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 152447
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Shigemasa favored using colors in broad opaque masses, as seen here in the beauties’ robes. He was a painter, printmaker, and poet, specializing in courtesan and actor prints. The format of this hanging scroll or "pillar painting" allows for the work to be hung on a pillar in a Japanese home.
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- Credit line
- The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
- Provenance
- (David Newman, London, UK, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith) | ? before 1977–1985: 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
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