Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji

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Mount Fuji

Ike Taiga 池大雅, 1723–1776; born and died Kyoto, Japan
Japanese
Edo period, 1603–1868
2020-381
The Kyoto-based painter Ike Taiga scaled Mount Fuji at least three times, when he was twenty-six, thirty- eight, and thirty-nine years old. The sketches he made during his travels informed his many paintings of the famed mountain. Combining his firsthand observations with pictorial conventions long used to represent Fuji, such as a gradual slope and a three-peak summit, the artist developed an atmospheric composition that sets the towering mountain against a foreground of humble pines gathered along the shoreline of Miho no Matsubara, a famous scenic area.

Information

Title
Mount Fuji
Maker
Ike Taiga 池大雅
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions
Painting: 28.5 × 61.6 cm (11 1/4 × 24 1/4 in.) mount: 136.5 × 64 cm (53 3/4 × 25 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift from the Gitter-Yelen Collection and Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr. Memorial Collection Fund
Object Number
2020-381
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Culture
Japanese
Period
Edo (Japanese period)
Type
paintings, scroll paintings, hanging scroll, landscapes (representations)
Materials
ink, paper (fiber product)
Techniques
painting (image-making)
Subject
trees, mountains

1998–2020 Gitter-Yelen Collection (New Orleans, LA), by gift and sold to the Princeton University art Museum, 2020.

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