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Follow the raised arm to the pin at her hair, then down the long fall of the blue robe to the red and striped hems pooling at her feet.
This is not a print but a painting, made by hand in ink and color on silk. The V&A notes that only the wealthy could afford paintings by the artists of the day, while prints reached a wide audience. Chōbunsai Eishi signed it and added his seal at the lower right, and the Art Institute dates it 1798. A tall, slender woman in a blue robe over red raises a pin to her hair.
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk · 93.2 × 30.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Beauty Replacing Her Hairpin
- Artist
- Chôbunsai Eishi Japanese, 1756-1829
- Date
- Edo period, 1798
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Dimensions
- 93.2 × 30.6 cm (36 3/4 × 12 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Henderson
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.