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Scenes from Essays in Idleness, late 1700s–early 1800s. One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on paper.
One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on paper · Image: 146.5 x 330.7 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Scenes from Essays in Idleness
- Artist
- Matsumura Goshun (Japanese, 1752–1811)
- Date
- late 1700s–early 1800s
- Medium
- One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 146.5 x 330.7 cm (57 11/16 x 130 3/16 in.); Overall: 170.2 x 375.8 cm (67 x 147 15/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1752–1811
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.





