id: 152433 accession number: 1985.261 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.261 updated: 2025-05-20 11:16:47.483000 Courtesan Reading a Letter, early 1800s. Teisai Hokuba (Japanese, 1771–1844), calligraphy by Ōta Nanpo (Japanese, 1749–1823). Two-panel folding screen; ink and color on paper; image: 156.8 x 165.4 cm (61 3/4 x 65 1/8 in.); overall: 175.2 x 183.5 cm (69 x 72 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.261 title: Courtesan Reading a Letter title in original language: 文読む遊女図 series: series in original language: creation date: early 1800s creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1823 current location: creditline: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868) technique: two-panel folding screen; ink and color on paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Folding screen type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Teisai Hokuba (Japanese, 1771–1844) - painter * Ōta Nanpo (Japanese, 1749–1823) - calligraphy by --- measurements: Image: 156.8 x 165.4 cm (61 3/4 x 65 1/8 in.); Overall: 175.2 x 183.5 cm (69 x 72 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: painting: Signed: Teisai. Sealed: Hokuba. calligraphy: Signed: Shokusanjin. translation: remark: inscription: translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections opening date: 1977-03-23T05:00:00 Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 23-May 8, 1977). 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: Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2001-07-15T00:00:00 Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001). 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, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2004-April 10, 2005). title: Japan’s Floating World 日本の浮世 opening date: 2022-04-08T04:00:00 Japan’s Floating World 日本の浮世. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 8-October 9, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Japanese Gallery 236 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 13–November 16, 2015).', 'opening_date': '2015-11-16T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (David Newman, London, England, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith) date: ?–1974 footnotes: citations: The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1974–1985 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1985– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS “Checklist of the Kelvin Smith Bequest.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 7 (September 1988): 292–295. page number: Mentioned: p. 294 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25160040 Jenkins, Donald. “Paintings of the Floating World.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 7 (September 1988): 244–278. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 248-249, fig. 3 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25160038 Cunningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Reproduced: pp. 68–69, cat. no. 31 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.261/1985.261_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.261/1985.261_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.261/1985.261_full.tif