Object details
Accession number
P14w2
Primary Creator
Kano Yasukuni
(1717 - 1792)
Full title
Hsi Wang Mu
Creation Date
18th century
Provenance
Said to have come from Shoren-in (called Awata Palace), Kyoto.
Entered the Hirase collection of Japanese art after about 1868.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Yamanaka sale at Copley Hall, Boston for $105 on 8 November 1902, lot 355.
Marks
Seal (right side, beneath the palace banisters): Hogen Yasukuni
Dimensions
71.1 x 116.8 cm (28 x 46 in.)
Display Media
Gesso pastiglia on cedar panel (in a black lacquer frame)
Web Commentary
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Permanent Gallery Location
Second Floor Stairhall and Stairway
Bibliography
Yamanaka & Co. Catalogue of [sic] Magnificent Collection of Antique Carvings and Things Buddhistic from Temples and Palaces... (Boston, 6-8 November 1902), pp. 98-99, lot 355. (entitled "Old Palace Panel"; the figure as "Chinese Empress Seiwobo"; as painted by Ritsuo, early 18th century)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 84. (the figure as Hsi Wang Mu; as painted by Yasukuni)
Yasuko Horioka. "Japanese Screens-III." Fenway Court (Jun. 1969), pp. 59, 62, fig. 4. (as painted by Yasukuni, 1717-1792)
Yasuko Horioka et al. Oriental and Islamic Art: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1975), pp. 75-76, no. 31. (as Japanese, by Kano Yasukuni, 1717-1792)
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