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Count the sparrows crowding the chrysanthemum trellis, then look down at the two puppies at lower right, one alert and one curled up.
Across the set, sparrows crowd onto a trellis of flowering chrysanthemums above a litter of puppies, some playing and others asleep. The Cleveland Museum of Art finds in the set the kind of tender story typical of Rosetsu, who often used animals to say something about the human condition. Here the birds fill the middle of the panel, while the puppies keep to the lower right.
Fusuma panel remounted as a hanging scroll; ink and slight color on paper · Overall: 211.4 x 94 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Puppies, Sparrows, and Chrysanthemums
- Artist
- Nagasawa Rosetsu (Japanese, 1754–1799)
- Date
- c. 1792–94
- Medium
- Fusuma panel remounted as a hanging scroll; ink and slight color on paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 211.4 x 94 cm (83 1/4 x 37 in.); Painted surface: 167.6 x 91.5 cm (66 x 36 in.)
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1754–1799
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.