id:			152436
accession number:	1985.264
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.264
updated:		2022-10-29 15:36:29.664000

Courtesan, 1700s. Studio of Kaigetsudō Ando (Japanese, c. 1671–1743). Hanging scroll; ink and color paper; overall: 182.9 x 53.4 cm (72 x 21 in.); overall: 181.6 x 47.8 cm (71 1/2 x 18 13/16 in.); painting only: 95.7 x 35.5 cm (37 11/16 x 14 in.); painting only: 97.4 x 35.5 cm (38 3/8 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.264

title:				Courtesan
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creation date:			1700s
creation date earliest:		1700
creation date latest:		1799
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creditline:			The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	hanging scroll; ink and color paper
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Kaigetsudō Ando (Japanese, c. 1671–1743)  - artist

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measurements: Overall: 182.9 x 53.4 cm (72 x 21 in.); Overall: 181.6 x 47.8 cm (71 1/2 x 18 13/16 in.); Painting only: 95.7 x 35.5 cm (37 11/16 x 14 in.); Painting only: 97.4 x 35.5 cm (38 3/8 x 14 in.)
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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).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Later Japanese Rotation (Gallery 113); March 18 - July 13, 2004.

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PROVENANCE

	(Kozo Yabumoto, Hyogo, Japan, 1973); Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith.
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wall description: 
Paintings of the courtesans who provided men with a sophisticated menu of appealing fashions, flattery, witty banter, music, dancing, and sexual services in the Yoshiwara district of the city of Edo (Tokyo) were the bread and butter of the Kaigetsudō studio, in whose style this work is painted. Their paintings emphasized bold, sweeping calligraphic ink lines in rendering the figures’ forms, along with high-contrast colors and patterns in their typically solitary subjects’ garments. Aside from the occasional prop or poem, the space around the dramatic figure was left entirely blank.
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