Pair of Portraits of Samurai-Officials: Hirai Kyosei and Hirai Rinsei (1776): Art, History and Details

Pair of Portraits of Samurai-Officials: Hirai Kyosei and Hirai Rinsei (1776) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Sando Hyosho (Japanese); Tsukioka Settei (Japanese, 1710–1786).

The work and its context

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

In this pair of figure paintings, the artist provided generational portraits of two clan leaders from the Hirai family, accompanied by lengthy inscriptions in a distinctive calligraphic style from separate scholar-officials.

Object facts

• Title: Pair of Portraits of Samurai-Officials: Hirai Kyosei and Hirai Rinsei
• Date: 1776
• Creator attribution: Sando Hyosho (Japanese); Tsukioka Settei (Japanese, 1710–1786)
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk
• Collection: ASIAN - Hanging scroll
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 1999.89

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

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