歌川豊広筆 「納涼美人図」|Woman Cooling Herself
The Met
Artist: Utagawa Toyohiro(Japanese, 1763–1828)
Date: ca. 1800
Department: Asian Art
Classification: Paintings
Medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions: Image: 15 3/4 × 26 1/8 in. (40 × 66.4 cm) Overall with mounting: 59 × 32 1/8 in. (149.9 × 81.6 cm) Overall with knobs: 59 × 34 3/4 in. (149.9 × 88.3 cm)
Credit Line: Purchase, Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, by exchange and Gift of Paul B. Zeisler Jr., by exchange, 2018
Visual Descriptions
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Brief Description
A woman in a dark kimono sits on a bench by a pond with irises, holding a fan.
Detailed Description
A woman is seated on a low, bamboo-style bench beside a body of water, framed by decorative borders. The woman, positioned slightly right of center, wears a dark, patterned kimono with white polka dots and wide sleeves. Her hair is styled in an elaborate dark bun with a red accent. Her skin is pale, and she looks downwards and to her left. She holds a light-colored fan with a blue and white geometric pattern in her right hand, resting her left arm on a dark, possibly fur-like, object in her lap. Her bare feet, with painted toenails, extend towards the left; one shoe is placed on the ground beside the bench. Above her, a tree trunk rises on the far right, with a branch extending horizontally across the top third of the image, adorned with sparse green leaves. To the left of the woman, a calm body of water stretches across the middle ground, with several clumps of tall, green iris plants and a few purple iris blossoms. Small rocks are visible along the water's edge. The background is a muted, light beige. The main image is bordered on the top and bottom by a decorative band featuring light-colored circular motifs alternating with green, leaf-like patterns. The left and right edges of the entire artwork are bordered by a dark grid pattern on a light background. A small red seal and some faint characters in an East Asian script are visible on the right side, near the tree trunk.
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