尾形光琳筆 梅花・秋草図|Flowers of Spring and Autumn
shortly after 1701
Medium
Pair of panels; ink and color on cryptomeria wood
Dimensions
Image: 54 in. × 7 7/8 in. (137.2 × 20 cm) Overall with mounting: 81 × 13 in. (205.7 × 33 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015
Accession Number
2015.300.90a, b
Tags
About the Artist
Ogata Kōrin · 1658–1716
Noted as one of the most important Japanese artists of the 17th century; known for paintings of irises and other subjects. He was regarded, along with Sotatsu, as one of the masters of the Sotatsu-Koetsu school of decorative painting, including painted screens and textile designs. He was descended from a samurai who had served under the Ashikaga rulers.