Autumn Flowers

Gallery 342, Asian Art, third floor

Main Building

Autumn Flowers

Mid- 17th century

Kitagawa Sōsetsu (Japanese, active mid- 17th century)

This painting of ivy, bush clover, mallow, cockscomb, and grasses was formerly in the collection of the Philadelphia artist Mary Cassatt (1844-1926). The painter to whom the work is attributed, Kitagawa Sösetsu, was a disciple of Tawaraya Sösetsu, who was either a younger brother, son, or disciple of the famed early-seventeenth-century Rimpa-school painter Tawaraya Sötatsu.

Gallery 342, Asian Art, third floor

Object Details

Title:

Autumn Flowers

Date:

Mid- 17th century

Artist:

Kitagawa Sōsetsu (Japanese, active mid- 17th century)

Medium:

Ink and colors on paper; mounted as a six-fold screen

Dimensions:

56 13/16 inches × 11 feet 1/16 inches (144.3 × 335.4 cm) Screen: 63 1/2 inches × 11 feet 6 inches (161.3 × 350.5 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

Gift of Mrs. Horace Binney Hare, 1966

Accession Number:

1966-100-1

Geography:

Made in Japan, Asia

Context:

Period: Edo Period (1615-1868)

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Gallery 342, Asian Art, third floor

Main Building

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