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Gibbons Reaching for the Moon, 1600s. Hanging scroll; ink and light color on silk.
Hanging scroll; ink and light color on silk · Painting: 170 x 33.9 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Gibbons Reaching for the Moon
- Artist
- Kano Tan’yū (Japanese, 1602–1674)
- Date
- 1600s
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and light color on silk
- Dimensions
- Painting: 170 x 33.9 cm (66 15/16 x 13 3/8 in.); Overall with knobs: 234 x 40.1 cm (92 1/8 x 15 13/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift from the Collection of George Gund III
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1602–1674
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.