id:			152481
accession number:	1985.304
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.304
updated:		2023-03-14 12:01:27.070000

Young Woman Looking at a Pot of Pinks, c. 1767. Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1724–1770). Color woodblock print, with embossing; sheet: 27 x 19.2 cm (10 5/8 x 7 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.304

title:				Young Woman Looking at a Pot of Pinks
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creation date:			c. 1767
creation date earliest:		1762
creation date latest:		1772
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creditline:			The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
copyright:			

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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique:	color woodblock print, with embossing
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1724–1770)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 27 x 19.2 cm (10 5/8 x 7 9/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Signature: Suzuki Harunobu ga
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	inscription:	Collector's Seal: Vever
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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

* <em>Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 12, 2004- April 10, 2005)

* <em>Harunobu, Koriusaï, Shunsho: estampes japonaises</em>. Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, France (January 1910)

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PROVENANCE

	Henri Vever [1854–1942], France
	date: ?-1942
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	(Sotheby & Co., London, UK, March 26, 1974, part I, lot 48)
	date: March 26, 1974
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	(R. E. Lewis, Inc., California, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith)
	date: 1974?-?
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	The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899-1998] given 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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wall description:
A girl steps onto a veranda after a bath to look at a pot of pinks. A warm breeze stirs the poem-strip tied to the windbell above her. Irises bloom in the pool in the background. The print has been identified as the summer subject in a set of four flowers representing each season and is considered to be one of Harunobu’s most enchanting designs. One of the most celebrated and productive of all ukiyo-e artists, Harunobu is widely recognized as the first Japanese printmaker to create designs by printing each color in the image with a different block. These prints came to be known as nishiki-e, or brocade pictures, suggesting their resemblance to the gorgeous brocades worn at the time. The embossing on the waves in the stream and on the flowers was created by using unpigmented blocks during the printing process.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Vignier, Charles, H. Inada, and Raymond Koechlin. <em>Harunobu, Koriusaï, Shunsho: estampes japonaises tirées des collections de mm. Bing, Bouasse-Lebel, Bullier [etc.] ... et exposées au Musée des arts décoratifs en janvier 1910</em>. Paris: Ateliers photo-mécaniques D.A. Longuet, 1910.
	page number: 	cat. no. 137
	url:		https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9602294n

	Sotheby's London. <em>Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings, from the Henri Vever Collection: Part I</em>. March 26, 1974.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 48, lot no. 48
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	Hillier, Jack Ronald. <em>Japanese Prints &amp; Drawings from the Vever Collection</em>. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1976.
	page number: 	Reproduced: vol. 1, cat. no 112, pp. 124-125
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