Currently not on view
Scholars Conversing in the Mountains,
1766
Ike Taiga 池大雅, 1723–1776; born and died Kyoto, Japan
Edo period, 1603–1868
1999-201
More About This Object
Information
Title
Scholars Conversing in the Mountains
Dates
1766
Maker
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions
Painting: 52.0 x 100.4 cm. (20 1/2 x 39 1/2 in.)
Mount: 161 x 117.7 cm. (63 3/8 x 46 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund, in memory of Shūjirō Shimada
Object Number
1999-201
Place Made
Asia, Japan
Inscription
Dated Hinoe inu shun shō getsu (early spring, 1766); signed, Kashō
Marks/Labels/Seals
Artists seals upper left: “Ka” “shō” “Zen shin sōma kyūsei”
Description
Immersed in conversation, four men in Chinese dress sit in the shade of three large pines. A fifth man approaches with an attendent. A high mountain loom to the right with housed nestled in a valley. A waterfall leading to a river divides the distant mountain from the foreground promontory where the men are seated.
Culture
Period
Materials
– Tani Bunchō (1763-1840) collection(?)
–1999 Sebastian Izzard LLC (New York, NY) on consignment from London Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1999.
–1999 Sebastian Izzard LLC (New York, NY) on consignment from London Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), sold to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1999.
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1999," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 59, no. 1/2 (2000): p. 70-101., p. 79
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 40 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 295
