Flowers and Grasses (1841): Art, History and Details
Flowers and Grasses at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1841, folding-album with six leaves of paintings; preface in ink on paper; paintings in ink and color on silk. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Flowers and Grasses (1841) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Tsubaki Chinzan (Japanese, 1801–1854).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This album contains six small paintings, each of which takes a different plant as its subject. The paintings include depictions of pomegranates, as well as flowering narcissus and orchid.
Object facts
- Title: Flowers and Grasses
- Date: 1841
- Creator attribution: Tsubaki Chinzan (Japanese, 1801–1854)
- Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Type: Bound Volume
- Technique: folding-album with six leaves of paintings; preface in ink on paper; paintings in ink and color on silk
- Dimensions: Album, closed: 28.9 x 19.6 cm (11 3/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
- Collection: Japanese Art
- Department: Japanese Art
- Accession number: 1976.56
Collection credit
Cornelia Blakemore Warner Fund
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