id:			155052
accession number:	1989.68
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.68
updated:		2025-03-05 12:07:41.405000

Beauty (Bijin) in the Snow, c. 1775–1818. Shiba Kōkan (Japanese, 1747–1818). Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk; image: 103 x 40.4 cm (40 9/16 x 15 7/8 in.); overall: 193 x 60 cm (76 x 23 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Kelvin Smith Fund, 1989.68

title:				Beauty (Bijin) in the Snow
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creation date:			c. 1775–1818
creation date earliest:		1775
creation date latest:		1818
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creditline:			Kelvin Smith Fund
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
technique:	hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Hanging scroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Shiba Kōkan (Japanese, 1747–1818)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 103 x 40.4 cm (40 9/16 x 15 7/8 in.); Overall: 193 x 60 cm (76 x 23 5/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1989
	opening date:   1990-02-06T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1989</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990).

	title:		Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   1998-02-21T00:00:00
	<i>Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Kenzaburo Marui, Ōsaka, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1989
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1989–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review: Selections 1989.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 77, no. 2 (February 1990): 38–78.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 58; Mentioned: p. 78, no. 209
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/2516010

	<em>Tōyō kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara </em>[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]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 145, no. 97
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IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.68/1989.68_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.68/1989.68_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.68/1989.68_full.tif