Su Dongpo in a Borrowed Hat

Object Details

• Artist

  Tomioka Tessai 富岡鉄斎 (1836-1924)

• Description

  Rainy landscape scene of Su Shih with a bundle of scrolls on his back, wearing clogs and a rain hat walking down a foreground path between a cascading stream and a rocky bank; background with a single figure in a building partly obscured by rain in front of slanting rain-swept peaks; 18 line inscription and three seals of the artist

• Previous custodian or owner

  Cheney Cowles

  Mary Cowles

  Matsumoto Shoeido 松本松栄堂

• Provenance

  To 2009

  Matsumoto Shoeido, Kyoto [1]

  From 2009 to 2018

  Mary and Cheney Cowles, Seattle, WA, purchased from Matsumoto Shoeido on November 9, 2009 [2]

  From 2018

  Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, Seattle, Washington [3]

  Notes:

  [1] Per information provided by the Cowles. See Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection 2018 Gift List for Freer/Sackler, object file, Collections Management.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] See Deed of Gift, object file, Collections Management Office.

• Origin

  Japan

• Credit Line

  The Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles

• Type

  Painting

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• Date

  1910s

• Name

  Matsumoto Shoeido, Cowles, Mary, Tomioka, Tessai, Cowles, Cheney

• Place

  Japan

• Topic

  Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Hanging scroll, Art, Japanese Art, Meiji era (1868 - 1912)

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Paintings