Artist
Yamamoto Baiitsu
(山本梅逸; 1783–1856)
Catalogue information
Edo period, 1848
Four hanging scrolls; ink and light color on silk
Each scroll (average) 102.6 x 35.2 cm (40 3/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Iizuka Beiu 1932b, pls. 68–71
; 1932b
[Editor]. Nanshū ha (Southern School). 4 vols. Nihonga taisei (Survey of Japanese painting), 9–11. Tokyo: Tōhō Shoin.
Suzuki Susumu 1973, pp. 75–82
; 1973
“Yamamoto Baiitsu hitsu Shiki sansui zu” (“Landscape of Four Seasons,” by Yamamoto Baiitsu). Kobijutsu, no. 40 (March): 79–82.
Mason 1977, pp. 25–27, no. 15
; 1977
Japanese Literati Painters: The Third Generation. Exh. cat. Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum.
Graham 1986, fig. 18 (“Summer”)
; 1986
“Yamamoto Baiitsu no Chūgokuga kenkyū” (Yamamoto Baiitsu’s approach to the study of Chinese painting). Kobijutsu, no. 80 (October): 62–75.
Murase 1993, no. 30
; 1993
Jewel Rivers: Japanese Art from the Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
Murase 2000, no. 165.
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 369 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Winter
Signatures
[Spring scroll] Painted in the first month of 1848. Baiitsu Ryō
[Summer scroll] By Baiitsu
[Autumn scroll] Painted by
Baiitsu
[Winter scroll] By Baiitsu, at Gyokuzenshitsu
Seals
[on Spring, Summer, and Autumn scrolls] Yamamoto Ryō
[on Winter scroll] Yamamoto Ryō; Meikyō