Two Beauties
late 1700s–early 1800s
- Medium
- hanging scroll, pillar painting: ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- 104.8 × 15.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-111713
Shigemasa favored using colors in broad opaque masses, as seen here in the beauties’ robes. He was a painter, printmaker, and poet, specializing in courtesan and actor prints. The format of this hanging scroll or "pillar painting" allows for the work to be hung on a pillar in a Japanese home.
Provenance
Kelvin Smith, 1985.274
Registry history
- late 1700s–early 1800s — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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