Autumn Landscape
(Japan and Korea )
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.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Ishinosuke Mizutani, Oriental Art Sekisen, Kyoto [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1986, by purchase.
Conservation
Date | Description | Narrative |
---|---|---|
9/19/1995 | Treatment | examined for exhibition; other |
9/1/1998 | Examination | examined for condition |
1/8/2002 | Examination | examined for exhibition |
Geographies
Japan (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Image H: 51 7/8 x W: 18 1/4 in. (131.8 x 46.3 cm); Overall H: 81 3/4 x W: 25 1/2 in. (207.6 x 64.8 cm); W of scroll without knobs: 23 1/4 in. (59 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
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
35.133