Boy Viewing Mount Fuji
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Period
1839 -
Geography
Japan -
Material
Ink and color on silk -
Dimension
H x W (image): 36.2 x 51.3 cm (14 1/4 x 20 3/16 in) -
Accession Number
F1898.110 -
EDAN ID
edanmdm:fsg_F1898.110
Object Details
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Artist
Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849) -
Signatures
Signed: Gakyo Rojin Manji hitsu Yowai hachi-ju (aged 80 years). -
Marks
Contains seal. -
Provenance
To 1898Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1853-1908), Japan, to 1898 [1]From 1898 to 1919Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Ernest Francisco Fenollosa, through Edward S. Hull Jr., New York in 1898 [2]From 1920Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]Notes:[1] See Original Kakemono List, L. 170, pg. 37, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Edward S. Hull Jr. was Ernest Francisco Fenollosa’s (1853-1908) lawyer. Hull often acted as an agent, facilitating purchases of objects consigned to him by Fenollosa, as well as purchases of objects consigned to him by Fenollosa'swell-known associate, Bunshichi Kobayashi (see correspondence, Hull to Freer, 1898-1900, as well as invoices from E.S. Hull Jr., 1898-1900, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives). See also, Ingrid Larsen, "'Don’t Send Ming or Later Pictures': Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum," Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011), pgs. 15 and 34. See further, Thomas Lawton and Linda Merrill, Freer: A Legacy of Art, (Washington, DC and New York: Freer Gallery of Art and H. N. Abrams, 1993), pgs. 133-134.[2] See note 1.[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery. -
Collection
Freer Gallery of Art Collection -
Exhibition History
Hokusai: Mad About Painting (November 20, 2019 to January 9, 2022)Hokusai: Paintings and Drawings (January 28, 2012 to June 24, 2012)Hokusai (October 25, 2005 to May 14, 2006)Real and Imagined Places in Japanese Art (March 4 to October 21, 2001)Japanese Art (May 9, 1993 to August 1, 1994)Japanese Art (November 7, 1986 to July 19, 1988)Famous Places of Japan (October 17, 1985 to February 13, 1986)Japanese Prints (December 1, 1978 to April 12, 1979)Japanese Ukiyo-e Painting (May 2, 1973 to July 1, 1974)Japanese Art—Paintings, Pottery (August 18, 1967 to September 20, 1971)Japanese Art, Galleries 3, 4, and 5 (January 1, 1963 to September 16, 1970)Hokusai Bicentennial Exhibition (March 30, 1960 to August 16, 1961) -
Previous custodian or owner
Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1853-1908) (C.L. Freer source)Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919) -
Origin
Japan -
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer -
Type
Painting -
Restrictions and Rights
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