Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Butterflies

Shibata Zeshin

dated 1881

Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Butterflies by Shibata Zeshin

Medium

Lacquer and mother-of-pearl fragments

Dimensions

7 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (19.1 x 16.5 cm)

Classification

Paintings

Culture & Period

Japan · Meiji period (1868–1912)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936

Accession Number

36.100.111

Tags

Butterflies

About the Artist

Shibata Zeshin · 18071891

Japanese, 1807–1891

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