Carp 鯉図

early 19th century

Current Collection

Washington, D.C., United States

Medium: Ink and color on silk
Dimensions: 44.9 × 85.8 cm
Status: In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID: C24-124678

Kuroda Toko was a samurai from Tottori who moved to Edo after studying with the official painter to the daimyo of his native region. Toko's teacher, Hijikata Torei (1735-1807), had studied in Kyoto with Maruyama Okyo (1733-95), who had created an influential style of painting from his study of Chinese, Japanese, and European art. Torei had also studied the realistic painting of natural subjects b…

Provenance

Gift of Charles Lang Freer

Registry history

early 19th century — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art

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