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Follow the glances from the woman in the garden, her hand raised to her chin, to the two faces leaning out between the posts of the veranda.
Katsukawa Shunshō dominated prints of kabuki actors, but he was also a well-known painter. This silk scroll dates from about 1792, the year of his death. A woman in a black robe patterned with large golden roundels stands in the garden with a round fan, and two women lean out from the veranda to talk with her, beside a small glass globe hanging from the eaves.
Hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk · 89.4 × 34.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Three Beauties Chatting by a Veranda
- Artist
- Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章 Japanese, 1726-1792
- Date
- About 1792
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk
- Dimensions
- 89.4 × 34.6 cm (35 1/4 × 13 5/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Oriental Art
- 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.