id: 152444 accession number: 1985.271 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.271 updated: 2020-11-04 21:25:50.715000 Portrait of a Woman, 1800s. Gion Seitoku (Japanese, 1781-1829?). Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; overall: 139.7 cm (55 in.); painting only: 56.6 x 44 cm (22 5/16 x 17 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.271 title: Portrait of a Woman title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1800s creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1829 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 paper department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Gion Seitoku (Japanese, 1781-1829?) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 139.7 cm (55 in.); Painting only: 56.6 x 44 cm (22 5/16 x 17 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's signature and two seals at right side. 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, 1973: "Ukiyo-e: Floating World," no catalogue
CMA, 1988: "A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection," CMA Bulletin 75 (September, 1988), listed p. 294; reproduced p. 273, figure 14 and color plate VIII, p. 269.
Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; December 12, 2004- April 10, 2005. "Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections". --- PROVENANCE (Kozo Yabumoto, Hyogo, Japan); Kelvin Smith date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: During the 1700s and 1800s, wearing iridescent, greenish lip gloss was in vogue. Also, Japanese women almost universally practiced the custom of artificially blackening their teeth with a stain. This woman wears a tortoiseshell comb and hairpins. A Kyoto-based painter, Seitoku specialized in portraying women from the Gion, the licensed brothel district in Kyoto. He was known for detailing faces with subtle modeling to heighten a sense of realism. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.271/1985.271_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.271/1985.271_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.271/1985.271_full.tif