Autumn Landscape

Description For Chikuto, as for the Chinese masters he was trying to emulate, brushwork was the most important element in painting. Each stroke was not merely a leaf or the face of a rock but a gesture that was thought to define the artist's character.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
9/19/1995	Treatment	examined for exhibition; other
9/01/1998	Examination	examined for condition
1/08/2002	Examination	examined for exhibition

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

Inscriptions [Date] 1834

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