id: 153810 accession number: 1988.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.1 updated: 2019-11-18 11:44:10.868000 Chinese Beauty, late 1700s-early 1800s. Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757-1820). Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk; image: 96 x 37 cm (37 13/16 x 14 9/16 in.); overall: 184.2 x 53.3 cm (72 1/2 x 21 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Kelvin Smith Fund 1988.1 title: Chinese Beauty title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: late 1700s-early 1800s creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1820 current location: creditline: Kelvin Smith Fund copyright: --- culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868) technique: hanging scroll, ink and color on silk department: Japanese Art collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757-1820) - artist --- measurements: Image: 96 x 37 cm (37 13/16 x 14 9/16 in.); Overall: 184.2 x 53.3 cm (72 1/2 x 21 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). title: Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1998-02-21T00:00:00 Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998). title: Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-01-15T00:00:00 Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Eastern Fine Arts, New York, NY, ?-1988, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1988 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1988-present date: 1988- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Kubo Shunman is best known as a composer of comic verse and designer of high quality prints known simply as “printed things” (surimono) on which such verses typically appeared. However, he also painted larger scale but equally detailed images like this one, which portrays an elegant Chinese woman standing before a banana plant. In keeping with the painting’s sensibility, the verse inspired by the scene and inscribed at the top is in Chinese, and executed in a refined and handsome style. Shunman’s signature at the lower right indicates that he painted the work with his left hand. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [東洋絵画の精華 : 特别展 : クリーヴラント美術館のコレクションから = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998. page number: Reproduced: p. 147, cat. no. 98 url: Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [クリーブランド美術館展 : 名画でたどる日本の美 Kurīburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 21, p. 72 url: Longhi, Leighton R. Leighton R. Longhi: Forty-Five Years in Asian Art. [New York, N.Y.]: Leighton R. Longhi, 2019. page number: Reproduced: p. 317, fig. 315 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.1/1988.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.1/1988.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.1/1988.1_full.tif