Water plants with blue flowers
Object Details
- Provenance
- To 1903
- Charles Gillot (1853-1903), Paris, to 1903 [1]
- From 1904 to 1919
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from the sale of the Charles Gillot Collection, Durand-Ruel Gallery, Paris, through Yamanaka Sadajiro (of Yamanaka & Company), in 1904 [2]
- From 1920
- Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
- Notes:
- [1] See Original Panel List, pg. 10, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
- [2] After his death in 1903, a sale of Asian art belonging to French artist Charles Gillot took place in February 1904 at the Durand-Ruel Gallery in Paris. Yamanaka Sadajiro (of Yamanaka & Company) attended the sale and annotated the sales catalogue (which is now in the Freer and Sackler Library) on Charles Lang Freer's behalf (see Curatorial Remark 6, Louise Cort, July 11, 2001, in the object record). Also, see note 1.
- [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Charles Gillot (1853-1903) (C.L. Freer source)
- Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Lang Freer
- 1615-1868
- Period
- Edo period
- Accession Number
- F1904.30
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Color, ink, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 28.1 x 42.9 cm (11 1/16 x 16 7/8 in)
- Origin
- Japan
- Related Online Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- See more items in
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Topic
- plant
- flower
- Edo period (1615 - 1868)
- Japan
- Japanese Art
- Charles Lang Freer collection
- Record ID
- fsg_F1904.30
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ye302909aae-4f4c-4482-b684-957114cbde0d
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