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Source Description
This winter scene shows Chikuto at his most restrained, foregoing the rhythmic and compositional complexities of his most ambitious paintings. It is a distillation, a work in which the minimal means are essential to the mood.Chikuto took classical painting as his model. The composition--nearby trees, water, distant mountain--and the spare brushwork deliberately evoke paintings by the 14th-century Chinese master Ni Tsan. They are also intended to convey the feeling of winter.
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Document identity
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35770
label
Fishing Alone on a Cold River
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obj
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
id
35770
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Fishing Alone on a Cold River
description
This winter scene shows Chikuto at his most restrained, foregoing the rhythmic and compositional complexities of his most ambitious paintings. It is a distillation, a work in which the minimal means are essential to the mood.Chikuto took classical painting as his model. The composition--nearby trees, water, distant mountain--and the spare brushwork deliberately evoke paintings by the 14th-century Chinese master Ni Tsan. They are also intended to convey the feeling of winter.
provenance
Ishinosuke Mizutani, Oriental Art Sekisen, Kyoto [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1986, by purchase.
date
1846 (late Edo)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
kakemono
scroll paintings
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1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
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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: 30 1/2 x W: 25 1/2 in. (77.47 x 64.77 cm); W of scroll only: 23 1/4 in. (59 cm)
Source extras
med
ink and color on paper
creator_ids
7057
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JPK
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none
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1
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0
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photo
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