Two women and a girl on the seashore
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Object Details
- Artist
- Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814)
- Signatures
- Signed: Gyo nen (age) roku-ju-roku (66) o (okina, i.e. old man) Ichiryusai Utagawa Toyoharu ga.
- Marks
- Contains seal.
- Provenance
- To 1898
- Edward S. Hull Jr., New York to 1898 [1]
- From 1898 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Edward S. Hull Jr. in 1898 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Kakemono List, L. 175, pg. 38, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Edward S. Hull Jr. was Ernest Francisco Fenollosa’s (1853-1908) lawyer. Hull often acted as an agent, facilitating purchases of objects consigned to him by Fenollosa, as well as purchases of objects consigned to him by Fenollosa's
- well-known associate, Bunshichi Kobayashi (see correspondence, Hull to Freer, 1898-1900, as well as invoices from E.S. Hull Jr., 1898-1900, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives). See also, Ingrid Larsen, "'Don’t Send Ming or Later Pictures': Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum," Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011), pgs. 15 and 34. See further, Thomas Lawton and Linda Merrill, Freer: A Legacy of Art, (Washington, DC and New York: Freer Gallery of Art and H. N. Abrams, 1993), pgs. 133-134.
- [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
- Seasons: Arts of Japan (February 5, 2011 to January 13, 2013)
- Artists of Edo (November 19, 2005 to May 29, 2006)
- Japanese Ukiyo-e Painting (May 2, 1973 to July 1, 1974)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Edward S. Hull Jr. (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- 1735-1814
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1898.113
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Color and gold on silk panel
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 87.3 × 32.9 cm (34 3/8 × 12 15/16 in)
- Origin
- Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- child
- woman
- Japan
- ukiyo-e
- kakemono
- Japanese Art
- shore
- girl
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1898.113
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye37cb09e50-9c16-42db-a295-6dd263171ebb
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