Artist
Kano Sanraku
(狩野山楽; 1559–1635)
Catalogue information
Edo period, 17th century
Pair of six-panel screens; ink, light color, and gold on paper
Each screen 151.6 x 358.2 cm (59 5/8 in. x 11 ft. 9 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Murase 1975, no. 44
; 1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Poster et al. 1999, no. 50
; 1999
Crosscurrents: Masterpieces of East Asian Art from New York Private Collections. Exh. cat. New York: Japan Society in association with the Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1999.
McKelway 2002, pp. 39–43
; 2002
“Autumn Moon and Lingering Snow: Kano Sansetsu’s West Lake Screens.” Artibus Asiae 62, no. 1: 39–43.
Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 62.
2005
Nyūyōku Bāku korekushon-ten: Nihon no bi sanzennen no kagayaki / Enduring Legacy of Japanese Art: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu; Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; and Miho Museum, Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture. [Tokyo]: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 142 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Signatures
[on each screen] Painted by Kano Sanraku at age 72
Seals
[on each screen] Shuri
; Mitsuyori