Ichikawa Sadanji in the role of Sukeroku

Object Details

• Artist

  Kawanabe Kyosai 河鍋暁斎 (1831-1889)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Josiah Conder (1852-1920)

  Estate of Helen A. Grut

• Provenance

  Josiah Conder (1852-1920) [1]

  To 1975

  Helen A. Grut, Copenhagen, to 1975

  From 1975

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Helen A. Grut's Estate in 1975

  Notes:

  [1] According to the object's record, the sketch was once owned by Josiah Conder, the artist's British pupil between 1881 and 1889 (see Curatorial Note 2, Y. Shimizu, 1983, in object record).

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Drawing

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• Date

  1880s

• Name

  Estate of Helen A. Grut, Conder, Josiah, Kawanabe, Kyosai

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Actors and actresses, Japanese Art, Portraits, Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Drawings