Attributed to Katsushika Hokusai, Two Entertainers Strolling on the New Year
Gift of Charles Lang Freer · National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Open Access (CC0)View original →
Attributed to Katsushika Hokusai

Two Entertainers Strolling on the New Year

ca. 1798-1801

Current Collection

National Museum of Asian Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Medium
Ink and color on paper
Dimensions
114.9 × 51.9 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-123207

This painting portrays a man and a boy strolling with a small dog near an arrangement of pine and bamboo, decorations set up for the New Year. The unsigned painting was attributed to Hokusai when Charles Lang Freer purchased it in 1902 from the English collector Michael Tomkinson (1841-1921). Research of Hokusai's paintings has focused on signed works, but similarities between this unsigned one a…

Provenance

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Registry history

  • ca. 1798-1801 — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art

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