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Asian Art
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Explore image in Study after the Hikone Screen depicting a Courtesan with a Dog
18th century
Hanging scroll, ink and color on paper
without mounting: 9 7/8 × 28 3/8 in. (25.1 × 72 cm)
with mounting: 63 1/2 × 14 9/16 in. (161.29 × 37 cm)
with rollers: 16 13/16 in. (42.7 cm)
with mounting: 63 1/2 × 14 9/16 in. (161.29 × 37 cm)
with rollers: 16 13/16 in. (42.7 cm)
Gift of J. Watson Webb, B.A. 1907, and Electra Havemeyer Webb
1940.175
Geography:
Japan
Culture:
Japanese
Period:
Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification:
Paintings
Provenance:
James Watson Webb II (1884–1960) and Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888–1960), New York; gift in 1940 to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
Kabuku bi no sekai: e wa kataru itan to kyoraku no ukiyo, exh. cat. (Nagoya, Japan: Tokugawa Art Museum, 1997), 89–92, 135, no. 26, ill.
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