Sunset Glow over a Fishing Village
Sunset Glow over a Fishing Village
Sunset Glow over a Fishing Village
Sunset Glow over a Fishing Village

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Sunset Glow over a Fishing Village

Kantei 鑑貞, fl. second half of 15th century
Japanese
Muromachi period, 1333–1568
1998-312

Information

Title
Sunset Glow over a Fishing Village
Maker
Kantei 鑑貞
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions
Painting: 60.1 x 31.4 cm. (23 5/8 x 12 3/8 in.) Mount: 144 x 43.5 cm. (56 11/16 x 17 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951
Object Number
1998-312
Place Made

Asia, Japan

Marks/Labels/Seals
Artist, "Kantei" 鑑貞, square intaglio, bottom right
Culture
Japanese
Period
Muromachi
Type
paintings, scroll paintings, hanging scrolls, japanese painting styles
Materials
paper (fiber product), ink
Subject
evening, sunsets, fishing villages, suns

–1998 John B. Elliott (Princeton, NJ), by bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1998.

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