7.2023.4: Autumn Landscape

Identification and Creation

Object Number

7.2023.4

People

Takebe Ayatari (Ryōtai) 建部綾足, Japanese (1719 - 1774)
Ikeno Taiga 池大雅, Japanese (Kyoto 1723 - 1776)

Title

Autumn Landscape

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting, hanging scroll

Date

Mid-18th century

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, Japan

Period

Edo period, 1615-1868

Culture

Japanese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/340534

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink and light color on silk.

Dimensions

painting proper: H. 111 × W. 53.7 cm (43 11/16 × 21 1/8 in.)
overall mounting, including roller ends and suspension cord: H. 204.8 × W. 71.4 cm (80 5/8 × 28 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• signature:
  建凌岱寫於寒葉齋 [Painted at Kan’yōsai (Studio of Cold Leaves) by Ken Ryōtai]
• seal: top right, upper; square, intaglio:
  凌岱 [Ryōtai]
• seal: top right, lower; square, intaglio: 孟喬 [Mōkyō]
• seal: bottom left; rectangular, relief:
  第一家 [Dai Ikka]
• inscription: by Ikeno Taiga 池大雅; upper left:
  過雨空秋萬壑奔
  
  夕陽野色小橋兮
  
  春山何如秋山好
  
  紅葉青山銷白雲
  
  
  
  Rain has passed from the empty autumn skies,
  
  and water rushes through ten thousand ravines rush.
  
  Rustic color and evening sunlight—a small bridge.
  
  When have spring mountains ever been as lovely as autumn mountains?
  
  Red leaves, green hills, dissolving white clouds.
  
  (Translation by Yukio Lippit, 2021, modifying an earlier one by Jonathan Chaves)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• signature: of Ikeno Taiga 池大雅:
  無名系 [Mumei kei]
• seal: of Ikeno Taiga 池大雅; upper; square, relief:
  遵生 [Junsei]
  
• seal: of Ikeno Taiga 池大雅; lower; ovoid, relief:
  霞樵 [Kashō]
  

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Harry G. C. Packard, Tokyo (by 1988)], sold; to Robert Feinberg, Maryland (1988-2023), long-term loan; to Harvard Art Museums.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg

Object Number

7.2023.4

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Rachel Saunders, ed., Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, brochure, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2021), pp. 16-17, cat. 3

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 2600 East Asian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/10/2022 - 06/04/2023

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