Object Details
- Description
- Strikingly simple rendering of a cornstalk and grasshopper combines a dramatic, close-up composition with expressive and definitive brushwork. Contained in original wooden box with lid and paper label. Box contained in additional wooden storage box with sliding closure and paper label.
- Signatures
- Signed Hoen suiboku.
- Inscriptions
- Inscription on box: Tomorokoshi shochu: a view of corn and small insect. Authentication by pupil, Hakuo, Hoen sensei shinseki: True brush of teacher Hoen. Box signed Hakuo-Haru, and sealed To sei no in.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Artist
- Nishiyama Hoen 西山芳園 (1804-1867)
- Date
- 19th century
- Period
- Edo period
- Credit Line
- Purchase from the Estate of Robert O. Muller — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art and the Harold P. Stern Memorial Fund
- Medium
- Ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (image): 120.7 x 31.1 cm (47 1/2 x 12 1/4 in)
- Type
- Painting
