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Source Description
For Chikuto, as for the Chinese masters he was trying to emulate, brushwork was the most important element in painting. Each stroke was not merely a leaf or the face of a rock but a gesture that was thought to define the artist's character.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
18795
label
Autumn Landscape
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
18795
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Autumn Landscape
description
For Chikuto, as for the Chinese masters he was trying to emulate, brushwork was the most important element in painting. Each stroke was not merely a leaf or the face of a rock but a gesture that was thought to define the artist's character.
provenance
Ishinosuke Mizutani, Oriental Art Sekisen, Kyoto [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1986, by purchase.
date
1834 (late Edo)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
kakemono
scroll paintings
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
131.8
height
46.3
dimensionsRaw
Image H: 51 7/8 x W: 18 1/4 in. (131.8 x 46.3 cm); Overall H: 81 3/4 x W: 25 1/2 in. (207.6 x 64.8 cm); W of scroll without knobs: 23 1/4 in. (59 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Date] 1834
med
ink and color on paper
creator_ids
7057
collection_ids
JPK
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
8d2c27a8583062ea