Snake Coiled around a Pine Tree before the Rising Sun

Artist: Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)

1821 (Year of the Snake)

Asian Art

Medium

Surimono, shikishi-ban; polychrome woodblock print with brass and silver pigment and gauffrage

Dimensions

sheet: 7 13/16 × 6 3/4 in. (19.8 × 17.2 cm)

Credit Line

Promised gift of Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, B.A. 1970

Loan number

ILE2017.30.270

Geography
Culture
Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Joanna Haab Schoff collection; acquired by Joan B. Mirviss (dealer), New York; sold to Virginia Shawan Drosten and Patrick Kenadjian, Koenigstein im Taunus, Germany, 2017 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017–present)
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Additional information

Object/Work type

color woodcuts, surimono

Marks

Sealed: Sen

Inscriptions

Manji-ren (under Yomo-gawa)\r\nFylfot Club\r\n卍連\r\n\r\nPoet\r\nShinra-tei Banshō (森羅亭萬象)

Signed

Keisai; Sealed: Sen
渓斎; 泉(印)

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