Chinese Servant Walking in the Rain (1500s): Art, History and Details

Chinese Servant Walking in the Rain (1500s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Gakuō Zōkyū (Japanese, active about 1482–1514).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Attributed to the artist Gakuō, this painting has a spurious seal of the influential Shōkokuji temple monk-painter Tenshō Shūbun (died about 1444–50), with whom he is said to have trained. Gakuō may have hailed from Ise in present-day Wakayama prefecture, an area south of Kyoto in the Kansai region. Although not much is known about his life, inscriptions on some of his paintings indicate strong ties with eminent monks in Kyoto’s major Zen temples.

Object facts

• Title: Chinese Servant Walking in the Rain
• Date: 1500s
• Creator attribution: Gakuō Zōkyū (Japanese, active about 1482–1514)
• Culture: Japan, Muromachi period (1392–1573)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: hanging scroll; ink on paper
• Dimensions: Mounted: 131.8 x 44.2 cm (51 7/8 x 17 3/8 in.)
• Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 2015.512

Collection credit

Gift from the Collection of George Gund III

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