Mountain landscape

Object Details

• Artist

  Taki Katei 瀧和亭 (1830-1901)

• Label

  The composition and subject matter of this landscape reflect the artist's knowledge of Chinese painting styles. Although the subject is conventional, this painting has a fresh quality, enlivened by color and the lattice of pines that prefigures the eclecticism of Taki Katei's later work.

  Katei, whose work was shown in the Vienna World Exposition (Weltausstellung) of 1873, was one of the first Japanese artists exhibited outside Japan. A respected painter and connoisseur, he was appointed an Imperial Household Artist (Teishitsu gigeiin).

• Provenance

  From 1944 or 1945 to 1993

  Dorothy D. Bray, Alexandria, VA, purchased in Shanghai in 1944 or 1945 [1]

  From 1993

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Dorothy D. Bray in 1993

  Notes:

  [1] According to Curatorial Note 1 in the object record.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Japanese Art of the Meiji Era (September 20, 1997 to April 26, 1998)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mrs. Dorothy D. Bray

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Dorothy D. Bray in memory of Richard P. Bray, Jr.

• Type

  Painting

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1870s

• Name

  Bray, Dorothy D.

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Mountains, Landscapes, Art, Japanese Art, Meiji era (1868 - 1912), Kakemono

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings