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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1767 creation date earliest: 1762 creation date latest: 1772 current location: creditline: The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: color woodblock print, with embossing department: Japanese Art collection: Japanese Art type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1724–1770) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 27 x 19.2 cm (10 5/8 x 7 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signature: Suzuki Harunobu ga translation: remark: inscription: Collector's Seal: Vever 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 * Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 12, 2004- April 10, 2005) * Harunobu, Koriusaï, Shunsho: estampes japonaises. Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, France (January 1910) --- PROVENANCE Henri Vever [1854–1942], France date: ?-1942 footnotes: citations: (Sotheby & Co., London, UK, March 26, 1974, part I, lot 48) date: March 26, 1974 footnotes: citations: (R. E. Lewis, Inc., California, 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] given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?-1985 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1985- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Vignier, Charles, H. Inada, and Raymond Koechlin. 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. Paris: Ateliers photo-mécaniques D.A. Longuet, 1910. page number: cat. no. 137 url: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9602294n Sotheby's London. Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings, from the Henri Vever Collection: Part I. March 26, 1974. page number: Reproduced: p. 48, lot no. 48 url: Hillier, Jack Ronald. Japanese Prints & Drawings from the Vever Collection. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1976. page number: Reproduced: vol. 1, cat. no 112, pp. 124-125 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.304/1985.304_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.304/1985.304_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.304/1985.304_full.tif