Artist
Matsumura Goshun
(松村呉春; 1752–1811)
Catalogue information
Edo period, ca. 1790–95
Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and light color on paper
Each screen 170.8 x 347.6 cm (67 1/4 in. x 11 ft. 4 7/8 in.)
Donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York by the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation in 2015
Literature
Shimada Shūjirō 1969, vol. 2, no. 89
; 1969
[Editor]. Zaigai hihō: Ōbei shūzō Nihon kaiga shūsei (Japanese paintings in Western collections). Vol. 1, Bukkyō kaiga, yamato-e, suibokuga (Buddhist painting, yamato-e, and ink painting). Vol. 2, Shōbyōga, Rinpa, bunjinga (Screen paintings, rinpa, and literati painting). Vol. 3, Nikuhitsu ukiyoe (Hand-painted ukiyo-e). Tokyo: Gakushū Kenkyūsha.
Murase 1971, no. 13
; 1971
Byōbu: Japanese Screens from New York Collections. Exh. cat. New York: Asia Society.
Hillier 1974, pl. 19 (Fishermen)
; 1974
The Uninhibited Brush: Japanese Art in the Shijō Style. London: Hugh M. Moss.
Takeda Tsuneo et al. 1982, pp. 83, 171
; Murase 1993, no. 32
; 1993
Jewel Rivers: Japanese Art from the Burke Collection. Exh. cat. Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
Murase 2000, no. 117
; 2000
Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tsuji Nobuo et al. 2005, no. 114.
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 406 in Volume I of Art through a Lifetime.
Additional details
Signatures
[on right screen] Painted by Goshun
[on left screen] Goshun
Seals
[on each screen] Goshun
; Hakubō