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Winter: two women looking at a flower in the snow

Object Details

Previous custodian or owner
Kobayashi Bunshichi 小林文七 (ca. 1861-1923) (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
Provenance
To 1903
Bunshichi Kobayashi (circa 1861-1923), Boston, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Yokohama, to 1903 [1]
From 1903 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Kobayashi Bunshichi in November 1903 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See List of Kakemon and Makimono, no. I, pg. 88, no. 352, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[2] See note 1.
[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.
Data Source
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Artist
Kubo Shunman 窪俊満 (1757-1820)
Date
19th century
Period
Edo period
Credit Line
Gift of Charles Lang Freer
Medium
Color and gold on silk
Dimensions
H x W (image): 88.3 × 31.3 cm (34 3/4 × 12 5/16 in)
Type
Painting

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