Elegant Pleasures of the Four Seasons (c. 1782): Art, History and Details
Elegant Pleasures of the Four Seasons at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1782, Woodblock print; ink and color on paper. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Elegant Pleasures of the Four Seasons (c. 1782) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?-1806).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
The title of this print suggests a series of four, but only this wintry print is known. A boy has dropped his toy wrestlers as he is hoisted up to a woman who has been enjoying a book at the heated table. Her companion buries her head beneath the blanket to stay warm, her bare feet exposed by a girl tending the hot coals in the pit in the floor.
Object facts
- Title: Elegant Pleasures of the Four Seasons
- Date: c. 1782
- Creator attribution: Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?-1806)
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Type: Print
- Technique: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Dimensions: Sheet: 26.1 x 39.1 cm (10 1/4 x 15 3/8 in.)
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Department: Japanese Art
- Accession number: 1930.196
Collection credit
Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore
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