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 3/8 × 19 in. (39.1 × 48.2 cm)
Overall: 47 7/16 × 24 1/2 × 1 1/8 in. (120.5 × 62.2 × 2.9 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
ARTH 62.30/ASCL 62.12, Japanese Prints, Allen Hockley, Spring 2022
ARTH 62.30/ASCL 62.12, Japanese Prints, Allen Hockley, Spring 2022
Art History 62.30, Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 62.12, Japanese Prints, Allen Hockley, Spring 2023
Art History 62.30, Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 62.12, Japanese Prints, Allen Hockley, Summer 2023
Studio Art 25.01, Studio Art 31.01, Painting I, II, Daniele Genadry, Summer 2024
Exhibition History
"Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozo/Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art," shown at the following venues: Sendai City Museum, Sendai, 1988.6.11--7.17 Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka, 1988.9.6--10.9 Sogo Museum, Yokohama, 1988.10.20--11.13
Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, Tokyo, "Edo no fashon, kaikan kinen ten, Part 1: Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e ni miru onnatachi no yosooi/'Fashion of Edo': Women's dress in Ukiyo-e Paintings," 1989.6.14--7.2
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992.11.15--1993.2.7
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.
Azabu Museum of Art, and Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, eds., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozo/Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art, introduction by Kobayashi Tadashi, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Azabu Museum of Art; Osaka: Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 1988), pl. 33.
Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, and Japan Institute of Arts and Crafts, eds., Edo no fashon, kaikan kinen ten, Part 1: Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e ni miru onnatachi no yosooi/"Fashion of Edo": Women's dress in Ukiyo-e Paintings, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, 1989), pl. 32
Dale Carolyn Gluckman, and Sharon Sadako Takeda, When Art Became Fashion: Kosode in Edo-period Japan, exh. cat. (New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992), cat. no. 196, color pl. p. 322.
Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pl. 35.
Yoshida Teruji et al., eds., Hanga soshi jidai 1 (The formative period of ukiyo-e 1), vol. 2 of Ukiyo-e taisei (Tokyo: Toho Shoin, 1931), pl. 4.
Provenance
From the Abuzu collection; Christies's Sale 9044, lot 44; sold to present collection, 1998.
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