Young Woman Looking at a Pot of Pinks
1767
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1767
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Young Woman Looking at a Pot of Pinks is a 1767 by Suzuki Harunobu, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
A young woman steps onto a veranda after a bath to look at a pot of pinks. The scene is peaceful, with a warm breeze stirring the poem-strip tied to the windbell above her. The print is part of a set of four flowers, each representing a season. This painting is similar to works by other Japanese artists, and to learn more, look up the artist Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1724–1770).
A girl steps onto a veranda after a bath to look at a pot of pinks. A warm breeze stirs the poem-strip tied to the windbell above her. Irises bloom in the pool in the background. The print has been identified as the summer subject in a set of four flowers representing each season and is considered to be one of Harunobu’s most enchanting designs. One of the most celebrated and productive of all ukiyo-e artists, Harunobu is widely recognized as the first Japanese printmaker to create designs by printing each color in the image with a different block. These prints came to be known as nishiki-e,…
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