Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

Watanabe Shikō, early-mid 1700s

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Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang, early-mid 1700s. One of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink on paper.

One of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink on paper · Painting: 150 x 356 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art

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Museum title: Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang
Artist: Watanabe Shikō (Japanese, 1683–1755)
Date: early-mid 1700s
Medium: One of a pair of six-panel folding screens, ink on paper
Dimensions: Painting: 150 x 356 cm (59 1/16 x 140 3/16 in.); Mounted: 170 x 376 cm (66 15/16 x 148 1/16 in.)
Credit line: Gift of N. V. Hammer
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Cleveland Museum of Art

Artist’s life 1683–1755

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.