Snowy Landscape, mid 19th century
Yamamoto Baiitsuexpand_more
Ink and color on paperexpand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.150
Not on Viewexpand_more
This fan painting by Yamamoto Baiitsu shows travelers crossing a bridge near an icy riverbank and a snow-covered mountain village. Now best known as a painter of bird and flower subjects, Baiitsu—along with his lifelong companion, Nakabayashi Chikutō (1776–1853), whose fan painting can be seen nearby—began studying old Chinese paintings as a child in his native Nagoya. After the death of their teacher in 1802, Baiitsu and Chikutō both set out for Kyoto to establish independent careers, though Baiitsu was less successful than Chikutō. After Chikutō’s death in 1853, Baiitsu returned to Nagoya to take up a position as Painter in Attendance to the Tokugawa-Owari family, lords of famous Nagoya Castle.
Details
- Title
- Snowy Landscape
- Artist Life
- 1783 - 1856
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.79.150
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 372
- Curator Approved
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