Beauty in the Snow
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- Title
Beauty in the Snow
- Related Titles
original language: 雪中美人図
- Artist
- Date
1830/1843
- Medium
hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
painting: 41 1/4 in x 14 7/8 in; mounting: 74 1/2 in x 20 in
- Collection Area
Asian Art
- Category
Paintings
- Object Type
hanging scroll
- Culture
Japanese
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Margery Hoffman Smith Fund
- Accession Number
90.18
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
The Kyoto artist Mihata Jōryū was trained in the Shijō School, which emphasized naturalism. He brings to his figures an unforced elegance quite distinct from the stylization found in images of beauties created by his contemporaries working in Edo (present-day Tokyo). Many of Jōryū’s surviving paintings, like this idealized image of a courtesan strolling in the snow, incorporate exquisite fabric from a woman’s kimono as part of the mounting silk for the painting.
