Woman stretching cloth to dry; two children at play
late 17th-early 18th century
- Medium
- Ink and light color on silk
- Dimensions
- 30 × 47.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-122603
One boy chases another beneath a long piece of light blue cloth as a young woman stretches the fabric with sticks to smooth it as it dries. The fabric is attached to a branch of a willow tree that has just begun to show green leaves in spring. The artist Hanabusa Itcho, a native of Osaka, received his artistic training in the traditional Kano school, but he preferred the subjects of daily life an…
Provenance
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Registry history
- late 17th-early 18th century — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art
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