Portrait of Chinese scholar Yan Hui (one of a set of three, see also F2007.11-12)

Object Details

• Artist

  Kano Naonobu (1607-1650)

• Inscription

  Inscription by Hayashi Razan (1583-1657)

• Sitter

  Yan Hui (521-490 B.C.E.)

• Provenance

  To 2007

  Victor and Takako Hauge [1]

  From 2007

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Victor and Takako Hauge in 2007

  Notes:

  [1] Acquisition Consideration Report.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Victor (1919-2013) and Takako (1923-2015) Hauge

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of Victor and Takako Hauge

• Type

  Painting

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• Name

  Hauge, Victor and Takako

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Art, Scholar, Hauge collection, Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868), Japanese Art, Portraits, Yan Hui, Edo period, Japan, 1600-1868

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings