Waves at Matsushima 松島図屏風
17th century
- Medium
- Ink, color, gold, and silver on paper
- Dimensions
- 166 × 369.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-122662
The brilliant paintings on this pair of folding screens are regarded as masterpieces among only six surviving sets of screens by Sotatsu, a talented and innovative artist who headed a painting workshop known as Tawaraya. As a townsman, Sotatsu produced paintings such as fans for popular consumption. By the late 1620s, however, Sotatsu was painting for the imperial court, and his works survive in …
Provenance
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Registry history
- 17th century — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art
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