Courtesans' Diversions on a Snowy Day | Yale University Art Gallery

late 18th century

Medium: Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk
Dimensions: without mounting: 27 3/16 × 13 3/4 in. (69 × 35 cm)
with mounting: 51 3/4 × 18 1/2 in. (131.5 × 47 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen, Mr. and Mrs. Laurens Hammond, and Mr. and Mrs. Knight Woolley, B.A. 1917
Accession Number: 1967.64.4
Geography: Japan
Culture: Japanese
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Classification: Paintings
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Provenance

K. Watanabe Collection, Tokyo; Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1967 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Handbook of the Collections, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 305, ill

George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1970), 237, no. 448, ill

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

hanging scrolls, human figures (visual works)

Subject

courtesan snow

Marks

seal: Koryusai

Signed

Koryusai zu (picture)

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