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Scroll Painting with Sparrows, Flowering Plants, and Rock

Yamamoto Baiitsu (Japanese, 1783-1865) (Painter)

1853 (Edo)

ink and colors on paper
(Japan and Korea )

Taking as his models Chinese bird-and-flower paintings, Baiitsu turned out countless variations, never lacking fresh inspiration. He was seventy when he painted this hanging scroll.

Inscription

[Signature] Baiitsuryo; [Seal] Baiitsu; [Seal] Ryo-in; [Inscription] The name of the artist's painting studio where he painted this in the summer of 1853; [Signature] On box: Chikka Sanjin (the painter Hirao Chikka) in 1937

Provenance

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Ishinosuke Mizutani, Oriental Art Sekisen, Kyoto [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1986, by purchase.

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Geographies

Japan (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 51 15/16 x W: 9 13/16 in. (132 x 25 cm)

Credit Line

Museum purchase with funds provided by the Ambassador and Mrs. William J. Sebald Fund, 1986

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.

35.135

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