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Jun 5, 2013

Chinese Beauty

唐美人図

late 1700s-early 1800s

Kubo Shunman 窪俊満

(Japanese, 1757-1820)

Japan, Edo period

(1615-1868)

Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk

Image: 96 x 37 cm (37 13/16 x 14 9/16 in.); Overall: 184.2 x 53.3 cm (72 1/2 x 21 in.)

Kelvin Smith Fund 1988.1

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Description

Kubo Shunman is best known as a composer of comic verse and designer of high quality prints known simply as “printed things” (surimono) on which such verses typically appeared. However, he also painted larger scale but equally detailed images like this one, which portrays an elegant Chinese woman standing before a banana plant. In keeping with the painting’s sensibility, the verse inspired by the scene and inscribed at the top is in Chinese, and executed in a refined and handsome style. Shunman’s signature at the lower right indicates that he painted the work with his left hand.

Provenance

?–1988

(Eastern Fine Arts, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1988–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

"The Year in Review for 1988." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 2 (1989): 30-75. Mentioned: no. 205, p. 74; Reproduced: no. 205, p. 59 www.jstor.org

Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. Reproduced: p. 147, cat. no. 98

Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [クリーブランド美術館展 : 名画でたどる日本の美 Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014. Reproduced: cat. no. 21, p. 72

Longhi, Leighton R. Leighton R. Longhi: Forty-Five Years in Asian Art. [New York, N.Y.]: Leighton R. Longhi, 2019. Reproduced: p. 317, fig. 315

Exhibition history

Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (June 3, 2016–January 10, 2017).

A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988).

Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).

Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014).

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