Summer and Winter Landscapes (one of a pair) (1600s): Art, History and Details

Summer and Winter Landscapes (one of a pair) (1600s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Kano Naonobu (Japanese, 1607–1650).

The work and its context

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

This sparse composition depicts a summer scene on the right and a winter scene on the left. Careful observation reveals that the pair of screens was once damaged, and a later conservation including new sections of paper and inpainting sought to preserve the original flavor of the paintings so they could continue to be appreciated. Kano Naonobu was born in Kyoto, the younger brother of major painter and authenticator Kano Tan’yū (1602–1674). He relocated to Edo (present-day Tokyo) at the behest of the Tokugawa government in 1630 where he worked with his brother and teacher. In Kyoto, he helped his brother with paintings for Nijō Castle and the major Pure Land Buddhist temple Chion’in.

Object facts

• Title: Summer and Winter Landscapes (one of a pair)
• Date: 1600s
• Creator attribution: Kano Naonobu (Japanese, 1607–1650)
• Culture: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
• Type: Painting
• Technique: six-panel folding screen; ink on gold- and silver-decorated paper
• Dimensions: Framed: 170 x 354 x 58.7 cm (66 15/16 x 139 3/8 x 23 1/8 in.)
• Collection: ASIAN - Folding screen
• Department: Japanese Art
• Accession number: 2015.481.2

Collection credit

Gift from the Collection of George Gund III

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