Landscape

Object Details

• Artist

  Okada Hanko 岡田半江 (1782-1846)

• Description

  This landscape departs from Hanko’s typical style, which emphasizes rounded mountain forms rendered mainly by wide dots of ink. This example shows unusually refined execution and exceptional brushwork, especially in areas such as the pine at the center of the composition. The composition is also unusual and dramatic, with the high viewpoint creating and emphatic view deep into the gorge where boats pass on the flowing river below. The support for the painting is satin weave silk, which was popular among Japanese artists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

• Provenance

  From late 1940s or early 1950s to 2006

  Victor and Takako Hauge [1]

  From 2006

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Victor and Takako Hauge in 2006

  Notes:

  [1] Acquisition Consideration Report.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Victor and Takako Hauge

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Taka and Victor Hauge

• Type

  Painting

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• Date

  1800s, 1840s

• Name

  Hauge, Victor and Takako

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Landscapes, Art, Hauge collection, Japanese Art, Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings