id: 152428 accession number: 1985.256 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.256 updated: 2023-03-14 12:01:26.664000 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: series in original language: creation date: c. 1810 creation date earliest: 1805 creation date latest: 1815 current location: creditline: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: hanging scroll; ink and color on silk department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Fujimaro (Japanese, d. 1830) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 180.4 x 48.3 cm (71 x 19 in.); Painting only: 94 x 31 cm (37 x 12 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's signature and two seals middle right side translation: remark: inscription: translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection opening date: 1988-09-14T04:00:00 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). title: Ukiyo-e: The Floating World Revisited opening date: 1993-10-26T04:00:00 Ukiyo-e: The Floating World Revisited. 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 Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections. 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 Japan's Floating World (Japanese art rotation) 235. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 8-October 9, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH (June 3, 2016–January 10, 2017). --- PROVENANCE (Felice Fedder Oriental Art, Inc., New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith) date: footnotes: citations: The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1985 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1985– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The handsome youth in the painting is accompanied by a boy carrying a plum branch. digital description: wall description: Many ukiyo-e paintings and prints focus on bijin (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."

The full blooming cherry is a metaphor for mature women, and the plum for young men. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Jenkins, Donald. “Paintings of the Floating World.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 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. The Floating World Revisited. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1993. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. IV-4, pp. 196-197 url: Vilbar, Sinéad. "Enhancing East Asia: Experience the Japanese and Korean Galleries in a New Light." Cleveland art: Cleveland Museum of Art members magazine, vol. 56, no. 3, May/June 2016, pp. 22-23. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 22 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2016-03 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.256/1985.256_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.256/1985.256_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.256/1985.256_full.tif