1870
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
An Unfortunate Tale, II is a 1870 paint by Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a scene from a sad story. It's one of three paintings by the same artist, telling the same story. The story is called 'An Unfortunate Tale' and it's about a woman's struggles. The artist used this story to create individual works for wealthy clients, instead of using them as designs for prints, which is interesting because it shows the artist's range - check out the work of Kawanabe Kyosai.
The painting depicts the second scene in a series illustrating the story "An Unfortunate Tale." A woman is shown seated on a mound, weeping, while a perplexed couple observes her.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Kawanabe Kyōsai (河鍋 暁斎; May 18, 1831 – April 26, 1889) was a Japanese painter and caricaturist. In the words of art historian Timothy Clark, "an individualist and an independent, perhaps the last virtuoso in traditional Japanese painting".
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