Information
- Title
- Scholars Conversing in the Mountains
- Object Number
- 1999-201
- 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.
- Maker
- Ike Taiga 池大雅
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
- Dates
- 1766
- 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
- Culture
- Japanese
- Period
- Edo period
- Place made
- Asia, Japan
- Inscriptions
- Dated Hinoe inu shun shō getsu (early spring, 1766); signed, Kashō
- Marks/Labels/Seals
- Artists seals upper left: “Ka” “shō” “Zen shin sōma kyūsei”
- 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. 87, p. 90 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 50 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 50
- Picturing Place in Japan Saturday, October 20, 2018 - Sunday, February 24, 2019
- An Educated Eye: The Princeton University Art Museum Collection (Friday, February 22, 2008 - Sunday, June 15, 2008)
- Masters of the Brush: Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran (April 29–July 22, 2007)
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