Artist
Toriyama Sekien
(鳥山石燕; 1712–1788)
Catalogue information
Edo period, 1781
Triptych of hanging scrolls; ink, color, and gold on paper
Each scroll 87.3 x 27.2 cm (34 3/8 x 10 3/4 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Ex Coll.: Frank E. Hart
Literature
Young and Smith 1966, no. 46
; 1966
Japanese Painters of the Floating World. Exh. cat., Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University. Ithaca, N.Y.: Office of University Publications, Cornell University.
Narazaki Muneshige 1969, pls. 50–52
; 1969
[Editor]. Zaigai hihō: Ōbei shūzō Nihon kaiga shūsei (Japanese paintings in Western collections). Vol. 3, Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e (Ukiyo-e paintings). Tokyo: Gakushū Kenkyūsha.
Murase 1975, no. 91
; 1975
Japanese Art: Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Murase 2000, no. 148.
2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
See also
This artwork was published as catalogue entry 270a–c in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Signatures
[on each scroll] Painted by Sekien at age 70
Seals
[on each scroll] Sekiso Tsukioka no in