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Two Beauties
Kitao Shigemasalate 1700s-early 1800s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Shigemasa favored using colors in broad opaque masses, as seen here in the beauties’ robes. He was a painter, printmaker, and poet, specializing in courtesan and actor prints. The format of this hanging scroll or "pillar painting" allows for the work to be hung on a pillar in a Japanese home.
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- Title: Two Beauties
- Creator: Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739-1819)
- Date Created: late 1700s-early 1800s
- Physical Dimensions: Painting only: 104.8 x 15.5 cm (41 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.); Including mounting: 175.3 x 32.7 cm (69 x 12 7/8 in.)
- Provenance: (David Newman, London, UK, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith), The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899-1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.274
- Medium: hanging scroll, pillar painting: ink and color on silk
- Inscriptions: artist's signature and seal, lower right corner. Poem inscribed on upper section of scroll.
- Department: Japanese Art
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
- Credit Line: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
- Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
- Accession Number: 1985.274
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