Wasp on a Cycad Artist: Nagasawa Rosetsu (Japanese, 1754–1799)

18th century

Asian Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Hanging scroll, ink and light color on paper

Dimensions

with mounting: 77 × 15 5/8 in. (195.6 × 39.7 cm)
without mounting: 48 × 10 5/8 in. (121.9 × 27 cm)
with rollers: 17 3/4 in. (45.1 cm)

Credit Line

Fielder Schillinberg, B.A. 1941, Collection, Gift of Lauren Ewing, Valerie Ewing Carney, and Nathaniel Mark Ewing

Accession Number

2023.89.6

Geography

Japan

Culture

Japanese

Period

Edo period (1615–1868)

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Ichiraku Collection, Kyoto, by 1952 [see note 1]. Mathias Komor Fine Arts, New York, by November, 1980, (inv. no. F894); sold to Fielder Schillinberg (1920—2001), Washington, Conn., New York, and Vincennes, Ind., November 7, 1980 [see note 2]; by descent to his nieces, Mary Lauren Ewing, New York, and Valerie Ewing Carney, New York, and his nephew, Nathaniel Mark Ewing, Vincennes, Ind., by 2001; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2023

Note 1: Written on the box paper wrapper: Showa 27 Remounted June 2, 1952 at Kyoto for the Ichiraku Collection.
Note 1: According to information provided by Lauren Ewing, Fielder Schillinberg purchased art between the 1950s and 1980. (copy in accession file)
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

hanging scrolls

Marks

Round red seal in relief. Unread

Inscriptions

None

Signed

Rosetsu sha

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