id:			152428
accession number:	1985.256
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.256
updated:		2022-06-10 18:38:34.981000

A Beauty, c. 1810. Fujimaro (Japanese, d. 1830). Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; overall: 180.4 x 48.3 cm (71 x 19 in.); painting only: 94 x 31 cm (37 x 12 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.256

title:				A Beauty
title in original language:	美人図
series:				
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creation date:			c. 1810
creation date earliest:		1805
creation date latest:		1815
current location:		235A Japanese
creditline:			The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Fujimaro (Japanese, d. 1830)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 180.4 x 48.3 cm (71 x 19 in.); Painting only: 94 x 31 cm (37 x 12 3/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Artist's signature and two seals middle right side
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection
	opening date:   1988-09-14T04:00:00
	<i>A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988).

	title:		Ukiyo-e: The Floating World Revisited
	opening date:   1993-10-26T04:00:00
	<i>Ukiyo-e: The Floating World Revisited</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 2-April 3, 1994).

	title:		Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections
	opening date:   2004-12-12T00:00:00
	<i>Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 12, 2004-April 10, 2005).

	title:		Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235
	opening date:   2022-04-08T04:00:00
	<i>Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 8-October 9, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH (June 3, 2016–January 10, 2017).

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PROVENANCE

	(Felice Fedder Oriental Art, Inc., New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith)
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	The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1985
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1985–
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fun fact: 
The handsome youth in the painting is accompanied by a boy carrying a plum branch.

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wall description: 
Many ukiyo-e paintings and prints focus on <em>bijin</em> (美人), or “beautiful people.” Female courtesans and entertainers were the main draw in the pleasure district of Edo (now Tokyo), but young men were also available. The poem here reads as follows: "The full blooming cherry / is not the only flower worth mentioning. / The color of the young plum tree / blooms as well."<br><br>The full blooming cherry is a metaphor for mature women, and the plum for young men.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Jenkins, Donald. “Paintings of the Floating World.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 75, no. 7, 1988, pp. 244–238.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 9, color plate 1, pp. 255-257
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25160038

	Jenkins, Donald, and Lynn Jacobsen-Katsumoto. <em>The Floating World Revisited</em>. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1993.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. IV-4, pp. 196-197
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	Vilbar, Sinéad. "Enhancing East Asia: Experience the Japanese and Korean Galleries in a New Light." <em>Cleveland art: Cleveland Museum of Art members magazine</em>, vol. 56, no. 3, May/June 2016, pp. 22-23.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 22
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2016-03

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IMAGES

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full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.256/1985.256_full.tif