Landscape with a Distant Temple
1600s
Maker Unknown
Japanese Art
Landscape with a Distant Temple, 1600s. Japan, Edo period (1615-1868). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; overall: 195.6 x 57.2 cm (77 x 22 1/2 in.); painting only: 107.7 x 45 cm (42 3/8 x 17 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1979.52 This painter emulated the style of Sesshū Tōyō (1420–1506) a Japanese artist who traveled to China to study painting.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- hanging scroll; ink on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 195.6 x 57.2 cm (77 x 22 1/2 in.); Painting only: 107.7 x 45 cm (42 3/8 x 17 11/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: apocryphal inscription dated 1490 on the upper left edge of the painting.
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1979.52
- Credit Line
- The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1979, Visions of Landscape: East and West, Mountains, Rocks, and Water: Landscape Painting in Asia, Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection, <em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 121)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 10-July 16, 2003).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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