Courtesan

Guide

The museum has published too little about this work for a guide to be written.

This narrow hanging scroll, known as a pillar painting, is similar to the format of Shigemasa’s Two Beauties (see CMA 1985.274).

The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC0

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Maker: Gion Seitoku (Japanese, active late 1700s–early 1800s)
Date: early 1800s
Medium: hanging scroll, pillar painting; ink and color paper
Dimensions: Overall: 194.3 x 18.6 cm (76 1/2 x 7 5/16 in.); Painting only: 126.5 x 13.3 cm (49 13/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Place of origin: Japan
Held by: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · Not on view
Credit line: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith

Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0

The museum has published too little about this work for a guide to be written.

This narrow hanging scroll, known as a pillar painting, is similar to the format of Shigemasa’s Two Beauties (see CMA 1985.274).

The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC0

Save this work’s image and museum information on this device to read without a connection.

Maker: Gion Seitoku (Japanese, active late 1700s–early 1800s)
Date: early 1800s
Medium: hanging scroll, pillar painting; ink and color paper
Dimensions: Overall: 194.3 x 18.6 cm (76 1/2 x 7 5/16 in.); Painting only: 126.5 x 13.3 cm (49 13/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Place of origin: Japan
Held by: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · Not on view
Credit line: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith

Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0