Dragons and Clouds 雲龍図屏風 （左隻）

Object Details

Artist

Tawaraya Sotatsu 俵屋宗達 (fl. ca. 1600-1643)

Provenance

To 1905

Bunshichi Kobayashi (circa 1861-1923), Boston, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Yokohama, to 1905 [1]

From 1905 to 1919

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunshichi Kobayashi in 1905 [2]

From 1920

Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:

[1] Undated folder sheet. See Voucher No. 34, September 1905, S.I. 78, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

[2] See note 1.

[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

Collection

Freer Gallery of Art Collection

Exhibition History

Rinpa Screens (February 25, 2023 to February 24, 2024)

Sotatsu: Making Waves (Saturday, October 24, 2015 to Sunday, January 31, 2016)

Japanese Screens (May 9, 1993 to November 13, 1995)

Studies in Connoisseurship 1923-1983 (September 23, 1983 to March 1, 1984)

Japanese Screens (February 11, 1983 to July 19, 1988)

Rimpa Screens (October 9, 1980 to December 21, 1981)

Japanese Art (July 1, 1974 to April 10, 1978)

Japanese Art—Painted Screens (August 18, 1967 to May 2, 1973)

Previous custodian or owner

Kobayashi Bunshichi 小林文七 (ca. 1861-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

1590-1640

Period

Momoyama or Edo period

Accession Number

F1905.229

Restrictions & Rights

CC0

Type

Painting

Medium

Ink and pink tint on paper

Dimensions

H x W (overall): 171.5 x 374.3 cm (67 1/2 x 147 3/8 in)

Origin

Japan

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Topic

dragon

Momoyama period (1573 - 1615)

Edo period (1615 - 1868)

Japan

Japanese Art

Charles Lang Freer collection

Record ID

fsg_F1905.229

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye3c38f453e-a729-4534-abe6-7fb85549cada