H x W (image): 36.2 x 51.3 cm (14 1/4 x 20 3/16 in)
Type:
Painting
Origin:
Japan
Date:
1839
Period:
Edo period
Signatures:
Signed: Gakyo Rojin Manji hitsu Yowai hachi-ju (aged 80 years).
Marks:
Contains seal.
Provenance:
To 1898
Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1853-1908), Japan, to 1898 [1]
From 1898 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Ernest Francisco Fenollosa, through Edward S. Hull Jr., New York in 1898 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Kakemono List, L. 170, pg. 37, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Edward S. Hull Jr. was Ernest Francisco Fenollosa’s (1853-1908) lawyer. Hull often acted as an agent, facilitating purchases of objects consigned to him by Fenollosa, as well as purchases of objects consigned to him by Fenollosa's
well-known associate, Bunshichi Kobayashi (see correspondence, Hull to Freer, 1898-1900, as well as invoices from E.S. Hull Jr., 1898-1900, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives). See also, Ingrid Larsen, "'Don’t Send Ming or Later Pictures': Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum," Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011), pgs. 15 and 34. See further, Thomas Lawton and Linda Merrill, Freer: A Legacy of Art, (Washington, DC and New York: Freer Gallery of Art and H. N. Abrams, 1993), pgs. 133-134.
[2] See note 1.
[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
Hokusai: Mad About Painting (November 20, 2019 to January 9, 2022)
Hokusai: Paintings and Drawings (January 28, 2012 to June 24, 2012)
Hokusai (October 25, 2005 to May 14, 2006)
Real and Imagined Places in Japanese Art (March 4 to October 21, 2001)
Japanese Art (May 9, 1993 to August 1, 1994)
Japanese Art (November 7, 1986 to July 19, 1988)
Famous Places of Japan (October 17, 1985 to February 13, 1986)
Japanese Prints (December 1, 1978 to April 12, 1979)
Japanese Ukiyo-e Painting (May 2, 1973 to July 1, 1974)
Japanese Art—Paintings, Pottery (August 18, 1967 to September 20, 1971)
Japanese Art, Galleries 3, 4, and 5 (January 1, 1963 to September 16, 1970)
Hokusai Bicentennial Exhibition (March 30, 1960 to August 16, 1961)
Previous custodian or owner:
Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1853-1908) (C.L. Freer source)