Artist
Maruyama Ōkyo
(円山応挙; 1733–1795)
Catalogue information
Edo period, 1774 (right screen), 1793 (left screen)
Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, light color, and gold on paper
Each screen 153.9 x 354.4 cm (60 5/8 in. x 11 ft. 7 1/2 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Burke 1993, fig. 14/no. 28
; 1993
Japanese Art: Personal Selections from the Mary and Jackson Burke Collection. Delray Beach, Fla.: The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens.
Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 97
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 386 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Signatures
[on each screen] Ōkyo
; [on right screen] Painted in the twelfth month of 1774
; [on left screen] Painted in the eighth month of 1793
Seals
[on right screen] Ōkyo no in
; Chūsen
[on left screen] Ōkyo no in