Artist
Utagawa Hiroshige
(歌川広重; 1797–1858)
Catalogue information
Edo period, ca. 1848–54
Diptych of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
Each scroll 92.8 x 31.1 cm (36 1/2 x 12 1/4 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
L. Cunningham 1984, p. 44, figs. 12a, 12b, p. 45, no. 12
; 1984
The Spirit of Place: Japanese Paintings and Prints of the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. Exh. cat. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery.
Tokyo National Museum 1985a, no. 66
; 1985a
Nihon bijutsu meihin ten: New York Burke Collection / A Selection of Japanese Art from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Tokyo: Chunichi Shimbun.
Avitabile 1990, no. 84
; 1990
[Editor]. Die Kunst des alten Japan: Meisterwerke aus der Mary and Jackson Burke Collection, New York. Exh. cat. Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.
Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 86.
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 291 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Signatures
[on right scroll] Kamakura Shichirigahama, Ryūsai
[on left scroll] Sōshū Enoshima fūkei, Ryūsai
Seals
[on each scroll] Hiroshige