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Mountain Landscape
Mountain Landscape

Mountain Landscape

Dateearly 19th century
Label TextLike many amateur scholar-painters, Beisanjin was self-taught. A member of a prosperous Osaka merchant family, he was at the center of an artistic circle that valued individuality and free expression in the manner of the Chinese literati, who rejected professionalism and strived to reflect the deeper essence underlying external appearance.
Object number65.21
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Asian Art Museum, "Transforming Traditions: Japanese and Korean Art since 1800", May 23, 2009 - February 21, 2010 Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "A Sack Full of Tigers: Diffusion and Diversity in Japanese Painting of the 19th Century Diffusion and Diversity in Japanese Painting", December 6, 1997 - November 15, 1998
Credit LineEugene Fuller Memorial Collection
Dimensions73 x 19 3/4 in. (185.4 x 50.2cm)
MediumInk and color on paper
Photo: Paul Macapia
1780s
Object number: 76.17.1
Photo: Paul Macapia
1780s
Object number: 76.17.2
Photo: Beth Mann
1991
Object number: 2009.22
Photo: National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Republic of Korea
Korean
late 19th century
Object number: 91.112
Photo: Beth Mann
Japanese
early 18th century
Object number: 34.115
Landscape with Solitary Scholar
ca. 1810
Object number: 74.72
Landscape
early 19th century
Object number: 91.35.1
Landscape
early 19th century
Object number: 91.35.2
Landscape
early 19th century
Object number: 91.35.3