A Courtesan Procession in the Snow
Kawamata Tsunemasa, Japanese, active mid-18th century
about 1740s; Late Edo Period (about 1789-1868)
Hanging scroll, ink, color and gold on paper
Image: 15 7/16 × 19 1/16 in. (39.2 × 48.4 cm)
Image: 15 7/16 × 19 1/16 in. (39.2 × 48.4 cm)
Sheet: 47 1/4 × 24 1/2 in. (120 × 62.2 cm)
Sheet: 47 1/16 × 24 1/2 in. (119.5 × 62.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through gifts from William Little, Robert Christy and gifts, by exchange
P.998.40
Geography
Place Made: Japan, East Asia, Asia
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed: Tsunemasa hitsu; sealed: Tsunemasa
Course History
ARTH 65, Japanese Prints, Allen Hockley, Winter 2012
ARTH 64, The Japanese Painting Tradition, Allen Hockley, Spring 2014
ARTH 65, Japanese Prints, Allen Hockley, Winter 2015
ARTH 62.3, Japanese Prints, Allen Hockley, Winter 2019
Exhibition History
Screens and Scrolls: Japanese Painting from the Ackland Art Museum, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 8-June 18, 2000.
Publication History
Robert Wentworth Christy, Greetings, Friends: Yuletide and Other Cards and Verses, Hanover, New Hampshire: Published by R.W. Christy, 139 pp., ill. p. 108.
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 100, ill. plate no. 31.
Provenance
From the Abuzu collection; Christies's Sale 9044, lot 44; sold to present collection, 1998.
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