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Beauty Admiring a Warbler on a Plum Tree, by Tsukioka Settei, unspecified, 1750

Beauty Admiring a Warbler on a Plum Tree

Tsukioka Settei

1750

unspecified

From the collection of Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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Overview

Beauty Admiring a Warbler on a Plum Tree is a 1750 unspecified by Tsukioka Settei, a Rococo painting work, held at Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Who painted this?
Tsukioka Settei
When & what style?
1750 · Rococo painting
Where can I see it?
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

About this work

This painting shows a woman in a kimono standing in front of a tree with pink flowers. She is wearing a black hat and looking down at the tree. The tree has a few branches with flowers on them, and there is a bird perched on one of the branches. The woman's kimono is red and black with a floral pattern, and she is wearing a white obi around her waist. The background of the painting is a light yellow color, and there are some Japanese characters written on the left side of the painting. The painting is very detailed and colorful, with a lot of intricate designs on the woman's kimono and the tree. It's a beautiful example of Japanese art from the 18th century. To learn more about this style of painting, you could look up the artist Tsukioka Settei.

About the artist

Portrait of Tsukioka Settei
Artist

Tsukioka Settei

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…

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