Artist

Tsukioka Settei

Portrait of Tsukioka Settei
Portrait of Tsukioka Settei

Tokugawa shogunate, 1726–1787

Tsukioka Settei was a Tokugawa shogunate Rococo painting artist. 3 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tsukioka Settei was born in Ōmi Province.

Tsukioka Settei (月岡 雪鼎, 1710 – 22 January 1787) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. Settei was born in Ōmi Province and studied painting in Osaka in the style of the Kanō school under Takada Keiho. He was strongly influenced by the work of the ukiyo-e artist Nishikawa Sukenobu.

Settei produced a number of printed works, but his bijin-ga paintings of female beauties are considered his most representative works.

Works by Tsukioka Settei

Collections represented

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