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Two carp swimming in a pool
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Description
Watanabe Nangaku was an outstanding pupil of Maruyama Ōkyo in Kyoto. From there he took Ōkyo’s new naturalistic style to Edo, where he taught for about three years between 1802 and 1810. He was an eclectic and versatile painter, particularly excelling in bijinga (pictures of beautiful women). He was most famous for his impromptu sketches but also earned a reputation for realistic and carefully brushed paintings of turtles and carp.
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 1801 - 1813
- Artist/maker
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Watanabe Nangaku (1767 - 1813) (artist)Maruyama-Shijō School (active late 18th century - late 19th century)
- Material and technique
- ink and light colour on paper
- Dimensions
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mount 36.2 x 55.3 cm (height x width)
painting 24 x 52.5 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Dr Michael Harari, from the collection of his father, Ralph Harari, 1981.
- Accession no.
- EAX.5380
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Further reading
Katz, Janice, Japanese Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, with an introductory essay by Oliver Impey (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2003), cat. supp. no. 84 on p. 229, illus. p. 229 fig. 84
Hillier, J., The Harari Collection of Japanese Paintings and Drawings, copyright owned by Michael Harari, 3 vols (London: Lund Humphries, 1973), no. 331 on p. 556, illus. p. 558 fig. 331
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Unfolding Nature: Images of Summer on Chinese and Japanese Fans
(from 10th Jul until 7th Oct 2012)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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