Bowl with Sparklers

Description Bunrin traced his artistic ancestry back to Maruyama Okyo (1733-95), famous for his efforts to create a Japanese counterpart to European realism. Bunrin also worked in the manner of Chinese literati painters. In this hanging scroll (and in "Fireflies among Reeds" [35.77]), painted toward the end of his life, there is a delight in atmospheric qualities, perhaps stimulated by recent exposure to the contrasting lights and darks of European paintings and prints.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
4/08/1991	Treatment	mounted; other
3/01/1998	Examination	examined for condition
7/02/2001	Examination	examined for exhibition

Provenance William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

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Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters (?)