content: 5th-3rd century BCE

label: Period

content: Warring States period

label: Provenance

content: John Hadley Cox (1913-2005), method of acquisition unknown [1]

content: From 1991

content: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, gift of John Hadley Cox [2]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See “Listing of Objects offered to the FGA by Mr. John Hadley Cox,” September 12, 1991, copy in object file.

content: John Hadley Cox (1913-2005) was an educator and a collector of Chinese archaeological ceramic, pottery, and bronze vessels, predominantly from the Changsha region of Hunan Province in South Central China. Upon graduating from Yale University in 1935 (B.A.), he spent two years teaching at Yale University's Yale-in-China program in Changsha. Whilst in China, he amassed his collection of ceramics and other materials from active archaeological sites in the region. During World War II, Cox served as an officer in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) (now the CIA), and he was sent to Shanghai in 1945 to collect counterintelligence. Cox was also a fellow of the Harvard-Yenching Institute of Far Eastern Studies, an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Michigan, and a linguistics professor at Georgetown University. In 1991, Cox donated 106 potsherds of Thai, Cambodian, Vietnamese, and Chinese origin to the Freer Gallery Study Collection. Cox also left numerous items of his collection to the art gallery of his alma mater.

content: [2] See Deed of Gift from John Hadley Cox, December 19, 1991, copy in object file. This work is part of the museum’s Freer Study Collection.

content: Research completed July 17, 2025

content: Freer Study Collection

content: John Hadley Cox (1913-2005)

content: China

label: Topic

content: wood

content: Warring States period (475 - 221 BCE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

content: Gift of the John Hadley Cox Archaeological Study Collection

content: Tool and Equipment

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: H x W (overall): 7 x 2.7 cm (2 3/4 x 1 1/16 in)

topic:
Art
Wood
Chinese Art
Warring States period (475 - 221 BCE)

content: China

label: Title

content: Comb

title_sort: COMB

title: Comb


unitCode: FSG

type: edanmdm

label: Date

content: ca. 1600 - ca. 1050 BCE

content: Shang dynasty

content: From 1936 to 1991

content: John Hadley Cox (1913-2005), Las Vegas, Nevada, purchased in Xiaotun, Anyang, Honan province, China. [1]

content: From 1991

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of John Hadley Cox, Las Vegas, Nevada. [2]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Curatorial Remark 1. See also the "List of Objects Offered to the Freer Gallery of Art" and Deed of Gift from John Hadley Cox, Collections Management Office.

content: [2] See note 1.

label: Collection

content: Freer Study Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: John Hadley Cox (1913-2005)

label: Origin

content: China

content: bone

content: Shang dynasty (ca. 1600 - ca. 1050 BCE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

label: Credit Line

label: Data Source

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Unclassified

label: Medium

content: Bone

label: Dimensions

content: H x W x D: 3.7 × 2.4 × 0.7 cm (1 7/16 × 15/16 × 1/4 in)

topic:
Art
Chinese Art
Shang dynasty (ca. 1600 - ca. 1050 BCE)
Bone

type: Country

content: China

content: Oracle bone, inscribed

unit_code: FSG

title_sort: ORACLE BONE, INSCRIBED

type: Images

label: High-resolution TIFF

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Oracle bone, inscribed


content: 206 BCE-220 CE

label: Period

content: Han dynasty

label: Provenance

content: To 1916

content: Yamanaka & Company, New York, to 1916 [1]

content: From 1916 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1916 [2]

content: From 1920

content: The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Bronze List, S.I. 989-S.I. 991, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. See also, the object records for F1916.472- .473.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

label: Topic

content: metal

content: bronze

content: Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Tool and Equipment

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: Bronze, gilding

content: Diam: 16.1 cm (6 5/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Yamanaka and Co.

topic:
Bronze
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Chinese Art
Metal-work
Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)

content: China

label: Title

content: Base for standard

title_sort: BASE FOR STANDARD

title: Base for standard


label: Date

content: 3rd century BCE

content: Han dynasty or earlier

label: Description

content: Tomb tile: hollow. Round hole at one end, large oblong hole at other end.

content: Clay: coarse, dark gray.

content: Glaze: none.

content: Decoration: impressed design of two birds and two horses; lozenge borders.

content: To 1914

content: Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1914 [1]

content: From 1914 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1914 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Reserved Miscellaneous List, R. 5684, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: China

content: ceramic

content: Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Unclassified

content: Pottery

content: H x W x D: 47.1 x 157.5 x 17.4 cm (18 9/16 x 62 x 6 7/8 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Chinese Art
Ceramics
Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)

content: China

content: Pottery: Unidentified form

title_sort: POTTERY: UNIDENTIFIED FORM

title: Pottery: Unidentified form


content: ca. 1600 - ca. 1050 BCE

content: Shang dynasty

content: From 1936 to 1991

content: John Hadley Cox (1913-2005), Las Vegas, Nevada, purchased in Xiaotun, Anyang, Honan province, China. [1]

content: From 1991

content: Notes:

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Study Collection

content: John Hadley Cox (1913-2005)

content: China

content: bone

content: Shang dynasty (ca. 1600 - ca. 1050 BCE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of the John Hadley Cox Archaeological Study Collection

label: Data Source

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Unclassified

label: Medium

content: Bone

content: H x W x D: 6.7 × 4.4 × 1 cm (2 5/8 × 1 3/4 × 3/8 in)

content: China

content: Oracle bone, incribed

title_sort: ORACLE BONE, INCRIBED

title: Oracle bone, incribed


content: 6th century BCE

label: Period

content: Eastern Zhou dynasty, Spring and Autumn period

content: Hsin-cheng type

content: Ceremonial vessel, type "fu"

content: Cover. Wood stand.

content: Surface: a lustrous black or brown patina, almost completely covered with an aerugo of variable color, and grayish incrustations.

content: Decoration: engraved.

content: Imperial Household collection of Prince Kung of China, Beijing [1]

content: To 1913

content: Yamanaka & Company, to 1913 [2]

content: From 1913 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased at the sale of the Prince Kung Collection (by order of Yamanaka and Company), American Art Association, New York February 27-28 and March 1, 1913 [3]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

content: Notes:

content: [1] The Imperial Household collection of Prince Kung was under the authority of Prince Kung Ching Wang (Yixin) (1833-1898), and, later, Prince Puwei (Prince Gongxian) (1880-1936), before Yamanaka and Company acquired it. See Illustrated Catalogue of the Remarkable Collection of the Imperial Prince Kung of China, A Wonderful Treasury of Celestial Art: recently acquired by the widely known firm of Yamanaka & Company (New York: American Art Association, 1913). See also, Original Bronze List, S.I. 390, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [3] See note 1.

content: [4] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Prince Kung Ching Wang (1833-1898)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: casting

content: metal

content: bronze

content: dragon

content: Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)

content: Spring and Autumn period (770 - 476 BCE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Vessel

content: Bronze

label: Dimensions

content: H x W x D: 16.5 x 27.2 x 20.5 cm (6 1/2 x 10 11/16 x 8 1/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Wang, Kung Ching
Yamanaka and Co.

content: China

content: Ritual serving vessel with lid (fu) and dragons

title_sort: RITUAL SERVING VESSEL WITH LID (FU) AND DRAGONS

label: High-resolution TIFF

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image


label: Date

content: 206 BCE-220 CE

content: Han dynasty

label: Provenance

content: To 1914

content: Helen Marion Bahr, London, to 1914 [1]

content: From 1914 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Helen Marion Bahr, London, in 1914 [2]

content: From 1920

content: The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 519, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Helen Marion Bahr (1873-1954) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

label: Topic

content: casting

content: metal

content: bronze

content: tiger

content: Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Jewelry and Ornament

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: Bronze

content: H x W: 4.2 x 8.8 cm (1 5/8 x 3 7/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Bahr, Helen Marion

topic:
Bronze
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Sculpture
Chinese Art
Tiger
Metal-work
Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)

content: China

object_type: Ornaments Jewelry

label: Title

content: Ornament in the form of a tiger

title_sort: ORNAMENT IN THE FORM OF A TIGER

title: Ornament in the form of a tiger


content: ca. 3300-ca. 2250 BCE

content: Late Neolithic period

label: Description

content: Squared, hollow cylinder of the type ts'ung [cong] 琮; low form with projecting collar at both ends, one end wider; mottled light and dark gray with scattered spots of brown, reddish brown, and orange; some white surface alteration in interior; decoration: channeled and incised, grooves and corner ridges, circles and linear designs; tool marks on one collar. (One chip.)

content: To 1916

content: You Xiaoxi, Shanghai, to 1916 [1]

content: From 1916 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from You Xiaoxi, in New York in 1916 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1046, pg. 233, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1944 (November 15, 1944 to May 6, 1946)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Ancient Chinese Art, 1944 (December 13, 1944 to May 7, 1946)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Ancient Chinese Art, 1943 (March 22, 1943 to November 17, 1944)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Metalwork (March 14, 1931 to March 22, 1943)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: You Xiaoxi 游篠溪 (late 19th-early 20th century) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: Lake Tai region, China

content: jade

content: nephrite

content: Late Neolithic period (ca. 5000 - ca. 1700 BCE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Culture

content: Liangzhu culture, ca. 3300-ca. 2250 BCE

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Jades for Life and Death

label: See more items in

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Ceremonial Object

content: Jade (nephrite)

content: H x W x D: 8.1 x 7.4 x 7.5 cm (3 3/16 x 2 15/16 x 2 15/16 in)

content: Diam (hole): 5.6 cm (2 3/16 in)

date:
BCE 2000s
BCE 3000s

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
You, Xiaoxi

place:
Lake Tai region
China

culture:
Chinese
Liangzhu culture

content: China

content: Two-tier tube (cong 琮) with masks

title_sort: TWO-TIER TUBE (CONG 琮) WITH MASKS

title: Two-tier tube (cong 琮) with masks


content: 17th century

label: Period

content: Ming dynasty

label: Artist

content: Probably by Zhang Hong (1577-after 1668)

content: Standing Guanyin.

content: Signature and three seals.

content: Paper panel.

content: To 1911

content: Loon Gu-sai, Beijing, to 1911 [1]

content: From 1911 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Loon Gu-sai in 1911 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 853, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. According to Ingrid Larsen, "'Don’t Send Ming or Later Pictures': Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum," Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011), Loon Gu Sai was possibly Lunguzhai, a store in the antiques district of Liulichang.

content: This object exhibits seals, colophons, or inscriptions that could provide additional information regarding the object’s history; see Curatorial Remarks in the object record for further details.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Ancient Chinese Paintings, Sculptures, and Jade Objects from the Collection formed by Charles Lang Freer (November 15 to December 08, 1917)

content: A Selection of Art Objects from the Freer Collection Exhibited in the New Building of the National Museum (April 15 to June 15, 1912)

content: Loon Gu Sai (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: Buddhism

content: Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: Guanyin

content: prayer beads

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: baimiao style

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Painting

label: Medium

content: Ink on paper

label: Dimensions

content: H x W: 92.5 x 42 cm (36 7/16 x 16 9/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Sai, Loon Gu

topic:
Prayer beads
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Baimiao style
Chinese Art
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)
Guanyin

culture: Buddhists Chinese

content: China

content: Standing Guanyin

title_sort: STANDING GUANYIN

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: Standing Guanyin


label: Date

content: 14th century ?

content: Probably Yuan dynasty

content: Formerly attributed to Zhou Fang (傳)周昉 (ca. 730-ca. 800)

label: Provenance

content: To 1916

content: Lai-Yuan and Company, New York, to 1916 [1]

content: From 1916 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Lai-Yuan and Company in 1916 [2]

content: From 1920

content: The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 1024, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This object exhibits seals, colophons, or inscriptions that could provide additional information regarding the object’s history; see Curatorial Remarks in the object record for further details.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Chinese Figure Painting (September 17, 1973 to January 3, 1975)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics (March 7, 1957 to January 1, 1963)

content: Lai-Yuan & Company (ca. 1915-April 1921) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

label: Topic

content: Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368)

content: woman

content: garden

content: banana tree

content: parrot

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: Ink and color on silk

content: H x W (image): 109.4 x 50.7 cm (43 1/16 x 19 15/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Lai-Yuan & Company

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Bananas
Chinese Art
Parrot
Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368)
Gardens
Woman

content: China

label: Title

content: Promenading Ladies

title_sort: PROMENADING LADIES

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Promenading Ladies


label: Period

content: Ming dynasty

content: Formerly attributed to Emperor Huizong (1082-1135 (reigned 1101-1125))

content: To 1911

content: Shir Gu Sai, China, to 1911 [1]

content: From 1911 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Shir Gu Sai in 1911 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 732, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This object exhibits seals, colophons, or inscriptions that could provide additional information regarding the object’s history; see Curatorial Remarks in the object record for further details.

content: [2] See note 1.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Shir Gu Sai (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: China

content: bird

content: duck

content: flower

content: Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: water

content: China

content: bird and flower

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

content: Ink on silk

content: H x W (image): 26.2 x 200 cm (10 5/16 x 78 3/4 in)

name:
Sai, Shir Gu
Freer, Charles Lang

topic:
Water
Charles Lang Freer collection
Bird and flower
Art
Animals
Chinese Art
Birds
Flowers
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)
Ducks

content: China

content: Two ducks in the water

title_sort: TWO DUCKS IN THE WATER

title: Two ducks in the water


content: Ming dynasty

content: To 1909

content: Loon Gu Sai, Beijing, to 1909 [1]

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Loon Gu Sai, Beijing, in 1909 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Album List, pg. 30, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. According to Ingrid Larsen, "'Don’t Send Ming or Later Pictures': Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum," Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011), Loon Gu Sai was possibly Lunguzhai, a store in the antiques district of Liulichang.

content: This object exhibits seals, colophons, or inscriptions that could provide additional information regarding the object’s history; see Curatorial Remarks in the object record for further details.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Loon Gu Sai (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: landscape

content: Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: river

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Painting

label: Medium

content: Ink and color on silk

content: H x W: 31.5 x 26.6 cm (12 3/8 x 10 1/2 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Landscapes
Art
Chinese Art
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)
Rivers

content: China

content: Landscape: trees, houses and a stream among hills

title_sort: LANDSCAPE: TREES, HOUSES AND A STREAM AMONG HILLS


label: Date

content: 17th century

content: Ming or Qing dynasty

label: Artist

content: Traditionally attributed to Guo Zhongshu (傳)郭忠恕 (910-977)

label: Label

content: Wangchuan Villa was the famous garden estate of the poet-painter Wang Wei (ca. 699-ca.761), who acquired the property around 740. Wang wrote twenty quatrains describing points of interest in the garden, and he illustrated the poetic mood of each site in a painting that ultimately became one of the most revered landscape scrolls in Chinese history. The composition provides a journey through a spectacular garden filled with sites designed to encourage quiet contemplation and at the same time suitable for entertaining visitors.

content: The composition of the Wangchuan Villa has been preserved in generations of copies; this version is a standard copy of what Wang Wei's original painting was believed to look like. Names of the special scenic features of the garden are written above each scene, including Hollow at Meng's Wall, Bamboo Hill, Magnolia Park, and White Stone Shallows.

content: That Wang Wei was a famous poet and painter as well as a garden designer helped inspire the Chinese view that these three deeply resonant arts can each serve equally well as expressions of a person's mind and personality.

label: Provenance

content: To 1911

content: Yen Wat-sai, China, to 1911 [1]

content: From 1911 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yen Wat-sai, in China, in 1911 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 747, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Note that the Accession List, Collections Management office, records the dealer’s name as Wen Yat-sai, rather than Yen Wat-sai. This object exhibits seals, colophons, or inscriptions that could provide additional information regarding the object’s history; see Curatorial Remarks in the object record for further details.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Yen Wat-sai (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

label: Topic

content: landscape

content: Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)

content: Wangchuan Villa

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

content: Ink and color on silk

label: Dimensions

content: H x W (overall): 30.8 x 438 cm (12 1/8 x 172 7/16 in)

name:
Wat-sai, Yen
Freer, Charles Lang

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Landscapes
Art
Chinese Art
Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)
Wangchuan Villa

content: China

content: The Wangchuan Villa

title_sort: THE WANGCHUAN VILLA

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: The Wangchuan Villa


label: Period

content: Ming dynasty

content: Formerly attributed to Hu Huai (early 10th century)

content: To 1917

content: Li Wenqing (late 19th-early 20th century), Shanghai, to 1917 [1]

content: From 1917 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Li Wenqing in 1917 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Reserved Kakemono List, R. 1070, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Li Wenqing 李文卿 (ca. 1869-1931) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: horse

content: Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: dog

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: Ink and color on paper

content: H x W: 64.9 x 43.6 cm (25 9/16 x 17 3/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Li, Wenqing

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Animals
Chinese Art
Dogs
Horses
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: China

label: Title

content: A Tatar, a lean horse, and a dog

title_sort: A TATAR, A LEAN HORSE, AND A DOG

label: High-resolution JPEG

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: A Tatar, a lean horse, and a dog


content: 206 BCE-220 CE

content: Han dynasty

content: To 1909

content: Count Tanaka, to 1909 [1]

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Count Tanaka through Samurai Shokai, Yokohama in 1909 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Bronze List, S.I. 111, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Metalwork (March 14, 1931 to March 22, 1943)

content: Chinese Jades and Bronze, East Corridor (November 19, 1923 to March 14, 1931)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Count Tanaka (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: China

content: casting

content: metal

content: bronze

content: Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

label: Accession Number

content: Mirror

content: Bronze

content: Diam x D: 24.2 x 1.4 cm (9 1/2 x 9/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Tanaka

topic:
Bronze
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Sculpture
Chinese Art
Metal-work
Han dynasty (206 BCE - 220 CE)

content: China

content: Mirror

title_sort: MIRROR

title: Mirror


label: Date

content: 6th century

label: Provenance

content: To 1909

content: Giovanni Dattari (circa 1858-1923), Cairo, Egypt, to 1909 [1]

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Giovanni Dattari in 1909 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See S.I. 189, Miscellaneous List, Egyptian Glass, pg. 1, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This piece is part of a collection of glass that was purchased en bloc and includes 1,388 specimens (for further purchase information, see the folder for F1909.332).

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Giovanni Dattari (1858-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Lombardy, Italy

label: Topic

content: glass

content: Italy

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: European Art

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Type

content: Jewelry and Ornament

label: Medium

content: Glass

label: Dimensions

content: H: 0.8 cm (5/16 in)

name:
Dattari, Giovanni
Freer, Charles Lang

place: Italy Lombardy

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
European Art
Glass

content: Italy

content: Bead, cylindrical

title_sort: BEAD, CYLINDRICAL

title: Bead, cylindrical


label: Artist

content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

label: Description

content: Gondolas and a sailboat in foreground; across the water, San Giorgio and other buildings.

label: Label

content: One of the sparest of Whistler's Venice pastels, this drawing was not included in the 1881 exhibition at the Fine Art Society in London. An evening view from the Riva degli Schiavoni looking south to the church of San Giorgio Maggiore, it was probably completed late in Whistler's stay in Venice, since the sky is touched with a wide range of colors, including greenish blue, lilac, blue, lemon, and orange. Unlike many pioneering Whistler collectors, Freer appreciated the abstractness of works like this one, which was the first Venice pastel he acquired.

content: To 1893

content: H. Wunderlich & Co., New York to 1893 [1]

content: From 1893 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. Wunderlich & Co. in 1893 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Paintings, pg. 21, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Whistler in Venice: The Pastels (January 19 to June 15, 2003)

content: James McNeill Whistler at the Freer Gallery of Art—Whistler and the Landscape (May 11, 1984 to February 5, 1985)

content: Whistler Pastels and Drawings, Re-arranged and some additions (January 7, 1924 to January 20, 1944)

content: H. Wunderlich & Co. (1874-1912) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: United States

content: United States

content: American Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Drawing

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: Fabricated chalks on brown paper

content: H x W (overall): 20.2 x 30.1 cm (7 15/16 x 11 7/8 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
H. Wunderlich & Co.

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
American Art

content: United States

label: Title

content: Venice

title_sort: VENICE

label: High-resolution JPEG

title: Venice


content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

label: Edition/State

content: Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonne," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G71 state 1 of 2.

content: Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London [1]

content: To 1898

content: H. Wunderlich & Co., New York to 1898 [2]

content: From 1898 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. Wunderlich & Co., through Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938), in November 1898 [3]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Etchings, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See Voucher No. 20, November 1898, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [3] See note 2.

content: [4] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: An American in London: Whistler and the Thames (May 3 to August 17, 2014)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: United States

content: etching (printing process)

content: boat

content: United States

content: American Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Print

content: Etching; ink on paper

content: H x W: 8.1 x 20.9 cm (3 3/16 x 8 1/4 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Haden, Seymour
H. Wunderlich & Co.

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Boats and boating
Art
American Art
Etching (printing process)

content: United States

content: Penny Passengers, Limehouse

title_sort: PENNY PASSENGERS, LIMEHOUSE

label: High-resolution TIFF

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Penny Passengers, Limehouse


label: Date

label: Period

content: Ming dynasty

content: Chen Jiru (1558-1639)

label: Provenance

content: To 1915

content: Tonying and Company, New York to 1915 [1]

content: From 1915 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Tonying and Company, New York in 1915 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Album List, pg. 48, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. By at least 1917, Tonying and Company maintained business locations in Shanghai, Beijing, Paris, London, and New York, NY. This object exhibits seals, colophons, or inscriptions that could provide additional information regarding the object’s history; see Curatorial Remarks in the object record for further details.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Seasons: Chinese Flowers (July 2, 2011 to January 8, 2012)

content: Beyond Brushwork: Symbolism in Chinese Painting (April 29 to November 26, 2006)

content: Tonying and Company 通運公司 (established 1902) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

label: Topic

content: flower

content: Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: plum blossom

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Painting

label: Medium

content: Ink on paper

label: Dimensions

content: H x W (image): 27.3 x 33.2 cm (10 3/4 x 13 1/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Tonying and Company

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Chinese Art
Flowers
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)
Plum blossom

content: China

content: A Plum Branch

title_sort: A PLUM BRANCH

title: A Plum Branch


content: Qing dynasty

content: To 1911

content: Riu Gu Sai, Beijing, to 1911 [1]

content: From 1911 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Riu Gu Sai in 1911 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 351, pg. 95, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Beyond Paper: Chinese Calligraphy on Objects (August 18, 1994 to July 3, 1997)

content: Bicentennial Exhibition: Chinese Art (December 5, 1975 to November 10, 1976)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Riu Gu Sai (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: carving

content: engraving (incising)

content: jade

content: Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)

content: China

content: lettering

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Jewelry and Ornament

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: Jade

content: H x W: 14.9 x 10 cm (5 7/8 x 3 15/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Sai, Riu Gu

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Carving
Chinese Art
Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)
Jade
Lettering
Engraving (incising)

content: China

label: Title

content: Ornament

title_sort: ORNAMENT

label: High-resolution JPEG

title: Ornament


content: 5th-4th century BCE

content: Eastern Zhou dynasty

content: Probably unearthed in Huoqiu (in the modern province of Anhui). [1]

content: To 1924

content: Orvar Karlbeck. [2]

content: From 1924

content: Freer Gallery of Art, purchased by Carl Whiting Bishop from Orvar Karlbeck. [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See item X85, pg. 56 in “Part IV, List 2: A Complete List of Objects in the Bishop Collection” from Sarah L. Newmeyer’s Interim Report (1976), copy in the Carl Whiting Bishop Collection file, Collections Management Office.

content: Also refer to Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920 file for location.

content: [2] Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record.

content: [3] Curatorial Remark 2 and 6 in the object record. The object was transferred from the Freer Study Collection (Bishop Collection) to the permanent collection in August 8, 1974.

content: Also see note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Chinese Art of the Warring States Period: Change and Community, 480-222 B.C. (September 30, 1982 to February 17, 1983)

content: Orvar Karlbeck (1879-1967)

label: Origin

content: China

content: casting

content: metal

content: bronze

content: Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Carl Whiting Bishop collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

content: Tool and Equipment

content: Bronze

content: H x W x D: 9.5 x 1 x 3 cm (3 3/4 x 3/8 x 1 3/16 in)

topic:
Bronze
Art
Sculpture
Eastern Zhou dynasty (770 - 221 BCE)
Chinese Art
Carl Whiting Bishop collection
Metal-work

content: China

content: Canopy fitting or finial

title_sort: CANOPY FITTING OR FINIAL

label: High-resolution TIFF

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Canopy fitting or finial


label: Date

content: 2nd century

label: Provenance

content: To 1909

content: Giovanni Dattari (circa 1858-1923), Cairo, Egypt, to 1909 [1]

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Giovanni Dattari in 1909 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See S.I. 189, Miscellaneous List, Egyptian Glass, pg. 1, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This piece is part of a collection of glass that was purchased en bloc and includes 1,388 specimens (for further purchase information, see the folder for F1909.332).

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Giovanni Dattari (1858-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Syria

label: Topic

content: glass

content: Syria

content: Ancient Near Eastern Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Jewelry and Ornament

content: Glass

content: H: 0.9 cm (3/8 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Glass

culture:
Middle Easterners
Syrians

content: Bead, fragment

title_sort: BEAD, FRAGMENT

title: Bead, fragment


label: Artist

content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

label: Edition/State

content: 5, 5

label: Label

content: Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonne," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G29 state 5 of 5.

content: Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London [1]

content: To 1898

content: H. Wunderlich & Co., New York to 1898 [2]

content: From 1898 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. Wunderlich & Co., through Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938), in November 1898 [3]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Etchings, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See Voucher No. 20, November 1898, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [3] See note 2.

content: [4] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Special Exhibition, Whistler Etchings and Lithographs (January 14, 1924 to February 18, 1924)

content: Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910)

content: H. Wunderlich & Co. (1874-1912) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: United States

content: etching (printing process)

content: United States

content: American Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Print

label: Medium

content: Etching; ink on paper

label: Dimensions

content: H x W: 15.2 x 9 cm (6 x 3 9/16 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
American Art
Etching (printing process)

content: United States

content: Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris

title_sort: RAG PICKERS, QUARTIER MOUFFETARD, PARIS

title: Rag Pickers, Quartier Mouffetard, Paris


content: 18th century

label: Period

content: Edo period

content: Signature of Ogata Kenzan 尾形 乾山 (1663-1743)

content: To 1903

content: Bunshichi Kobayashi (circa 1861-1923), Boston, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Yokohama, to 1903 [1]

content: From 1903 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunshichi Kobayashi in 1903 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Kakemono List, L. 336, pg. 83, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Boxed In: Japanese Ceramics and Their Storage Boxes (September 23, 1982 to February 17, 1983)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Kobayashi Bunshichi 小林文七 (ca. 1861-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: Japan

content: pine tree

content: winter

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: snow

content: Japan

content: kakemono

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: Color and gold on paper

content: H x W (image): 25.9 × 65.9 cm (10 3/16 × 25 15/16 in)

name:
Kobayashi, Bunshichi
Freer, Charles Lang

topic:
Pine tree
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Winter
Snow
Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)
Japanese Art
Kakemono

content: Japan

label: Title

content: Snow-laden Pine Boughs

title_sort: SNOW-LADEN PINE BOUGHS

label: High-resolution JPEG

title: Snow-laden Pine Boughs


label: Date

content: 4th century

label: Provenance

content: To 1909

content: Giovanni Dattari (circa 1858-1923), Cairo, Egypt, to 1909 [1]

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Giovanni Dattari in 1909 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See S.I. 189, Miscellaneous List, Egyptian Glass, pg. 1, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This piece is part of a collection of glass that was purchased en bloc and includes 1,388 specimens (for further purchase information, see the folder for F1909.332).

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Giovanni Dattari (1858-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Syria

label: Topic

content: glass

content: Syria

content: Ancient Near Eastern Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Jewelry and Ornament

content: Glass

content: Diam: 0.8 cm (5/16 in)

content: Bead

title_sort: BEAD

label: High-resolution TIFF

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Bead


content: 1550-1196 BCE

label: Period

content: New Kingdom

content: To 1909

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [2] See note 1.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Egypt

content: glass

content: New Kingdom (ca. 1539 - 1075 BCE)

content: Egypt

content: Ancient Egyptian Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Jewelry and Ornament

label: Medium

content: Glass

label: Dimensions

content: Diam: 0.5 cm (3/16 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Glass
Ancient Egyptian Art
New Kingdom (ca. 1539 - 1075 BCE)

type: Continent

content: Africa

content: Egypt

content: Bead

title: Bead


content: Edo period

label: Artist

content: Kitao Shigemasa 北尾重政 (1739-1820)

label: School/Tradition

content: Ukiyo-e

content: To 1903

content: Yamanaka & Company, to 1903 [1]

content: From 1903 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company in 1903 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, pg. 72, L. 302, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. The majority of Charles Lang Freer’s purchases from Yamanaka & Company were made at its New York branch. Yamanaka & Company maintained branch offices, at various times, in Boston, Chicago, London, Peking, Shanghai, Osaka, Nara, and Kyoto. During the summer, the company also maintained seasonal locations in Newport, Bar Harbor, and Atlantic City.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917-1965) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: Japan

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: ocean

content: Japan

content: ukiyo-e

content: kakemono

content: Japanese Art

content: balcony

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: Color and gold on silk

content: H x W (image): 30.3 × 47.6 cm (11 15/16 × 18 3/4 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Balconies
Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)
Japanese Art
Ocean
Ukiyo-e
Kakemono

content: Japan

content: Two girls on a balcony overlooking the sea

title_sort: TWO GIRLS ON A BALCONY OVERLOOKING THE SEA


label: Date

content: 17th century

content: Edo period

content: Hishikawa Moronobu 菱川師宣 (1618-1694)

label: Label

content: In March 1657 a fire destroyed much of the city of Edo (Tokyo). More than one hundred thousand people perished in the blaze or in the snowstorm that immediately followed. Fashions distinctive to the late seventeenth century are clearly evident among the nearly four hundred figures populating the expanse of this painting. Thus, these screens, painted in the artist's final years, should be understood as Moronobu's celebration of the seasonal pleasures of a resurrected and vital metropolis.

content: The right-hand screen depicts autumn activities. In the foreground is Kannonji Temple and the surrounding environment of Asakusa. In the upper left, above this scene, boats traverse the Sumida River to the opposite bank, where the pleasure houses of Mukojima await visitors. The left-hand screen shows throngs enjoying the cherry blossoms in the Ueno area. The Kaneiji Temple is at the far left, and Shinobazu Pond is in the foreground.

content: Hishikawa Moronobu, born into a family of textile designers, is regarded by some as a progenitor of the ukiyo-e style (art depicting contemporary life and pleasures) that flourished during the Edo period (1615-1868). He consolidated disparate genre painting styles into a canon that influenced several generations of artists.

label: Provenance

content: To 1906

content: Bunkio Matsuki (1867-1940), Boston, to 1906 [1]

content: From 1906 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunkio Matsuki in 1906 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Screen List, L. 118, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Hokusai: Mad About Painting (November 20, 2019 to January 9, 2022)

content: Seasons: Japanese Screens (July 9, 2011 to January 22, 2012)

content: Surveying the Collections: Poets and Parties (July 2, 2000 to February 4, 2001)

content: Japanese Screens (May 9, 1993 to November 13, 1995)

content: Autumn Colors (October 19 to December 20, 1984)

content: Japanese Screens (February 11, 1983 to July 19, 1988)

content: Japanese Lacquer (April 16, 1979 to October 8, 1980)

content: Japanese Art (July 1, 1974 to April 10, 1978)

content: Japanese Ukiyo-e Painting (May 2, 1973 to July 1, 1974)

content: Japanese Art—Painted Screens (August 18, 1967 to May 2, 1973)

content: Japanese Art, Galleries 3, 4, and 5 (January 1, 1963 to September 16, 1970)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Screens, 1957 (March 20, 1957 to March 30, 1960)

content: Centennial Exhibition, Gallery 5 (February 25, 1956 to March 15, 1957)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Screens (October 3, 1947 to November 10, 1955)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Screens and Scrolls, 1946 (April 30, 1946 to October 3, 1947)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Japanese Screens and Scrolls (April 5, 1933 to December 8, 1941)

content: Bunkio Matsuki 松木文恭 (1867-1940) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Japan

label: Topic

content: autumn

content: horse

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: cherry blossom

content: boat

content: temple

content: Japan

content: palanquin

content: ukiyo-e

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Painting

content: Ink, color, and gold on paper

content: H x W (.266): 179.9 x 382.3 cm (70 13/16 x 150 1/2 in)

content: H x W (.267): 180 x 382.2 cm (70 7/8 x 150 1/2 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Matsuki, Bunkio

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Boats and boating
Art
Animals
Autumn
Temple
Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)
Japanese Art
Horses
Ukiyo-e
Cherry blossom
Palanquin

content: Japan

label: Title

content: Autumn at Asakusa; Viewing cherry blossoms at Ueno Park

title_sort: AUTUMN AT ASAKUSA; VIEWING CHERRY BLOSSOMS AT UENO PARK

label: High-resolution JPEG


content: 11th-13th century

label: Period

content: Angkor period

content: Excavated from kiln site no. 6, Ban Prasat Village, Ban Kruat district, Buriram province, Northeast Thailand. [1]

content: From 1973 to 1999

content: Mr. and Mrs. Roy Galloway, Easton, Maryland, purchased from a local villager from the Ban Kruat sites in Buriram province, Northeast Thailand. [2]

content: From 1999

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Galloway, Easton, Maryland. [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Curatorial Remark 2 in the object record. According to an email from Roy Galloway to Louise Cort in June 22, 1999, he believes they were dug up in the field from the Ban Kruat sites, but he did not see them recovered. Nor did he do the digging.

content: [2] See Curatorial Remarks 2 and 4 in the object record.

content: [3] See note 2.

label: Collection

content: Freer Study Collection

content: Mr. and Mrs. Roy Galloway

content: Buriram province, Thailand

content: stone

content: Angkor period (802 - 1431)

content: Thailand

content: Southeast Asian Art

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Mr. Roy Galloway

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Tool and Equipment

label: Medium

content: Sandstone

label: Dimensions

content: H x W x D: 2.8 x 7.5 x 8.7 cm (1 1/8 x 2 15/16 x 3 7/16 in)

place:
Buriram province
Thailand

topic:
Art
Southeast Asian Art
Stone
Angkor period (802 - 1431)

content: Thailand

content: Two-part casting mold

title_sort: TWO-PART CASTING MOLD

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Two-part casting mold


label: Date

content: 4th century

content: To 1909

content: Giovanni Dattari (circa 1858-1923), Cairo, Egypt, to 1909 [1]

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Giovanni Dattari in 1909 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See S.I. 189, Miscellaneous List, Egyptian Glass, pg. 1, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This piece is part of a collection of glass that was purchased en bloc and includes 1,388 specimens (for further purchase information, see the folder for F1909.332).

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Giovanni Dattari (1858-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: Syria

content: glass

content: Syria

content: Ancient Near Eastern Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Jewelry and Ornament

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: Glass

content: Diam: 0.4 cm (3/16 in)

content: Bead

title: Bead


content: 18th century

content: Mughal dynasty

label: Court

content: Mughal Court

label: School/Tradition

content: Mughal school

label: Provenance

content: Before 1890

content: Ownership information unknown

content: By 1890-1907

content: Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914), method of acquisition unknown [1]

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See “Catalogue of Indo-Persian Pictures and Manuscripts, Principally of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries by Native Artists, Collected by H. B. Hanna” [book], (London: Dowdeswell and Dowdeswells, 1890).

content: Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914) was an officer in the British military and a collector of Indian paintings. Born in Petersfield, Hampshire, England, Hanna’s family later moved to London, where he was baptized in 1851. Beginning in 1857, Hanna served as a commissioned officer in the Indian Army and retired with the rank of Colonel in 1889. After his retirement, he resided in London and Petersfield with his younger sisters. According to Hanna, he began collecting Indian paintings around the time of the Indian Rebellion (1857-1859). See letter from Henry Bathurst Hanna to Charles Lang Freer, dated April 10, 1908 [sic, 1907], p. 3, Box 17, Folder No. 10, Charles Lang Freer Papers, National Museum of Asian Art Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

content: [2] See Charles Lang Freer art voucher no. 24, “For a collection of Indo-Persian pictures and manuscripts” from H. B. Hanna of Heathmere, Petersfield, Hants. [Hampshire], England, from October 1907, Box 114, Folder No. 12, Charles Lang Freer Papers, National Museum of Asian Art Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., copy in object file.

content: Research updated April 19, 2024

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Colonel Henry Bathurst Hanna (1839-1914) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: India

label: Topic

content: portrait

content: Mughal dynasty (1526 - 1858)

content: India

content: South Asian and Himalayan Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Painting

content: Color and gold over gold-sprinkled black ground on paper

content: H x W: 14.2 x 8 cm (5 9/16 x 3 1/8 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Hanna, Henry Bathurst

topic:
South Asian and Himalayan Art
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Mughal dynasty (1526 - 1858)
Portraits

culture:
Himalayan peoples
South Asians

content: India

content: A portrait of I'timad ad-Dawlah

title_sort: A PORTRAIT OF I'TIMAD AD-DAWLAH

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: A portrait of I'timad ad-Dawlah


content: To 1912

content: Dikran G. Kelekian (1868-1951), Cairo, Egypt, Paris, France, and New York to 1912 [1]

content: From 1912 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Dikran G. Kelekian, New York in 1912 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 366, pg. 114, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Dikran Garabed Kelekian (1868-1951) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Probably Istanbul, Turkey

content: floral patterns

content: rugmaking

content: wool (hair)

content: Turkey

content: Arts of the Islamic World

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Costume and Textile

label: Medium

content: Wool

content: H x W: 378.3 x 250 cm (148 15/16 x 98 7/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Kelekian, Dikran Garabed

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Wool (hair)
Arts of the Islamic World
Floral patterns
Rugmaking

culture: Muslims Turks

object_type: Costume Textiles

label: Title

content: Carpet

title_sort: CARPET

label: High-resolution JPEG

title: Carpet


label: Date

label: Artist

content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

label: Edition/State

content: 2, 2

label: Label

content: Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in "James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonne," by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G39 state 2 of 4.

content: Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London [1]

content: To 1898

content: H. Wunderlich & Co., New York to 1898 [2]

content: From 1898 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from H. Wunderlich & Co., through Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938), in November 1898 [3]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [4]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Etchings, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See Voucher No. 20, November 1898, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [3] See note 2.

content: [4] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Sweet Silent Thought: Whistler's Interiors (August 20, 2011 to August 26, 2012)

content: Whistler and the Hadens (June 20, 1999 to April 30, 2000)

content: Special Exhibition, Whistler Etchings and Lithographs (January 14, 1924 to February 18, 1924)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910)

content: H. Wunderlich & Co. (1874-1912)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: United States

content: etching (printing process)

content: portrait

content: reading

content: United States

content: American Art

content: interior

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Print

content: Etching; ink on paper

label: Dimensions

content: H x W: 14.5 x 21.7 cm (5 11/16 x 8 9/16 in)

topic:
Design
Charles Lang Freer collection
Reading
Art
American Art
Interior decoration
Portraits
Etching (printing process)

content: United States

content: The Music Room

title_sort: THE MUSIC ROOM

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: The Music Room


content: ca. 1825-1833

label: Period

content: Edo period

content: Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

label: Signatures

content: Signed: Zen Hokusai Tameichi hitsu.

label: Marks

content: Contains seal.

content: Hokusai painted this small work after he reached the age of sixty. Its composition, brushwork, and color demonstrate perfect technical control. The inclusion of a flying insect resembles the formula that Hokusai adopted in his "Large Flowers" print series in the 1830s. This painting was among the first group of Hokusai works purchased by Charles Lang Freer in 1898. Freer had already developed a taste for the simple compositions and pleasing colors of paintings by artists such as Ogata Korin (1658-1716), who introduced a style of painting from Kyoto to Edo in the early eighteenth century.

label: Provenance

content: To 1898

content: Edward S. Hull Jr., New York to 1898 [1]

content: From 1898 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Edward S. Hull Jr. in 1898 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Kakemono List, L. 171, pg. 38, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Edward S. Hull Jr. was Ernest Francisco Fenollosa’s (1853-1908) lawyer. Hull often acted as an agent, facilitating purchases of objects consigned to him by Fenollosa, as well as purchases of objects consigned to him by Fenollosa's

content: well-known associate, Bunshichi Kobayashi (see correspondence, Hull to Freer, 1898-1900, as well as invoices from E.S. Hull Jr., 1898-1900, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives). See also, Ingrid Larsen, "'Don’t Send Ming or Later Pictures': Charles Lang Freer and the First Major Collection of Chinese Painting in an American Museum," Ars Orientalis vol. 40 (2011), pgs. 15 and 34. See further, Thomas Lawton and Linda Merrill, Freer: A Legacy of Art, (Washington, DC and New York: Freer Gallery of Art and H. N. Abrams, 1993), pgs. 133-134.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Hokusai: Mad About Painting (November 20, 2019 to January 9, 2022)

content: Hokusai (October 25, 2005 to May 14, 2006)

content: Edward S. Hull Jr. (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Japan

label: Topic

content: fly

content: flower

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: Japan

content: ukiyo-e

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Painting

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: Ink and color on silk

content: H x W (image): 35 × 54.4 cm (13 3/4 × 21 7/16 in)

name:
Hull, Edward S.
Freer, Charles Lang

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Insects
Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)
Japanese Art
Ukiyo-e
Flowers

content: Japan

content: Pumpkin Vine and Horse Fly

title_sort: PUMPKIN VINE AND HORSE FLY

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: Pumpkin Vine and Horse Fly


label: Date

content: late 16th-early 17th century

content: Momoyama period

label: Artist

content: Kano Mitsunobu (ca. 1565-1608)

label: School/Tradition

content: Kano

label: Label

content: The scenes on these screens are based on a Chinese poem, "Song of Everlasting Sorrow," by Bo Juyi (772-846). The poem, which tells the tragic story of Tang dynasty emperor Ming Huang (Xuanzong) and his love for his concubine Yang Guifei, was known in Japan since the tenth century. The story is told in episodes beginning in the lower right corner of the left screen and moving in a circular, counterclockwise direction. At the top of the left screen, a party is held as the An Lushan rebellion begins; Yang Guifei perished in the uprising. In the upper right of the right screen, the emperor is alone after the uprising ends.

content: To 1901

content: Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1853-1908), New York, NY, and Spring Hill, AL, to 1901 [1]

content: From 1901 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Ernest Francisco Fenollosa in 1901 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Screen List, S.I 42, L. 48, pg. 10, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Japanese Screens (February 6 to August 19, 2013)

content: Japanese Screens (May 9, 1993 to November 13, 1995)

content: Japanese Screens (February 11, 1983 to July 19, 1988)

content: Japanese Art—Painted Screens (August 18, 1967 to May 2, 1973)

content: Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1853-1908) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Japan

content: Momoyama period (1573 - 1615)

content: concubine

content: Japan

content: emperor

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Painting

label: Medium

content: Ink, color and gold on paper

content: H x W: 173.6 x 381.8 cm (68 3/8 x 150 5/16 in)

name:
Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco
Freer, Charles Lang

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Momoyama period (1573 - 1615)
Concubine
Japanese Art
Kings and rulers

content: Japan

label: Title

content: Scenes from the life of the Ming Huang Emperor and Yang Guifei (one of a pair with F1901.21)

title_sort: SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF THE MING HUANG EMPEROR AND YANG GUIFEI (ONE OF A PAIR WITH F1901.21)

label: High-resolution JPEG


label: Period

content: Edo period

content: Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

label: Provenance

content: To 1904

content: Bunshichi Kobayashi (circa 1861-1923), Boston, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Yokohama, to 1904 [1]

content: From 1904 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunshichi Kobayashi in 1904 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Album List, pg. 1, Sketches by Hokusai, S.I. 4, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Kobayashi Bunshichi 小林文七 (ca. 1861-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: Japan

label: Topic

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: woman

content: Japan

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

content: Ink and color on paper

label: Dimensions

content: H x W (sheet and image): 23.6 x 21.6 cm (9 5/16 x 8 1/2 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)
Japanese Art
Woman

content: Japan

content: Seated figure of a woman

title_sort: SEATED FIGURE OF A WOMAN

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Seated figure of a woman


label: Date

content: Ming dynasty

content: To 1917

content: You Xiaoxi (late 19th-early 20th century), Shanghai, to 1917 [1]

content: From 1917 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from You Xiaoxi in 1917 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 1208, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: You Xiaoxi 游篠溪 (late 19th-early 20th century) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: water buffalo

content: Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Painting

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: Ink and color on silk

content: H x W (image): 67.3 x 36.3 cm (26 1/2 x 14 5/16 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
You, Xiaoxi

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Chinese Art
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)
Water buffalo

content: China

content: Water-buffalo and calf

title_sort: WATER-BUFFALO AND CALF

title: Water-buffalo and calf


label: Artist

content: James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903)

label: Edition/State

content: 4, 1

label: Label

content: Whistler etchings are identified by "G" numbers as assigned in James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné by Margaret F. McDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012), http://etchings.arts.gla.ac.uk. This print is G55, state 1 of 2.

content: To 1905

content: Obach & Co., London, to 1905 [1]

content: From 1905 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Obach & Co. in 1905 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Whistler List, Etchings, June 9, 1905, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change (November 18, 2023 to May 4, 2024)

content: Whistler's Greatest Etchings: 1889 Amsterdam Set (June 28, 2003 to February 1, 2004)

content: Whistler Etchings and Copper Plates (May 15, 1968 to February 22, 1971)

content: Whistler Etchings and Lithographs (March 23, 1962 to July 4, 1962)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Drawings, Etchings, and Lithographs, 1959 (April 15, 1959 to November 2, 1959)

content: Centennial Exhibition, East Corridor (February 25, 1956 to July 10, 1958)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Prints (December 12, 1955 to February 25, 1956)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Etchings, Lithographs, and Drypoint (September 24, 1947 to April 11, 1955)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Prints, East Corridor (January 5, 1944 to January 8, 1947)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Whistler Etchings and Lithographs (April 4, 1930 to January 20, 1944)

content: Etchings and Dry Points by Whistler (March 23, 1925 to March 24, 1930)

content: Special Exhibition, Whistler Etchings and Lithographs (January 14, 1924 to February 18, 1924)

content: American Paintings, Etchings, and Lithographs. J.A.McN. Whistler (May 2, 1923 to January 7, 1924)

content: Obach & Co. (1884-1911) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: United States

content: etching (printing process)

content: United States

content: American Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Print

label: Medium

content: Etching; ink on paper

content: H x W: 25.1 x 17.8 cm (9 7/8 x 7 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Obach & Co.

content: United States

content: The Lime-Burner

title_sort: THE LIME-BURNER

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: The Lime-Burner


content: 1550-1196 BCE

label: Period

content: New Kingdom

label: Provenance

content: To 1909

content: Giovanni Dattari (circa 1858-1923), Cairo, Egypt, to 1909 [1]

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Giovanni Dattari in 1909 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See S.I. 189, Miscellaneous List, Egyptian Glass, pg. 1, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This piece is part of a collection of glass that was purchased en bloc and includes 1,388 specimens (for further purchase information, see the folder for F1909.332).

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Giovanni Dattari (1858-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: Egypt

label: Topic

content: glass

content: New Kingdom (ca. 1539 - 1075 BCE)

content: Egypt

content: Ancient Egyptian Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Jewelry and Ornament

content: Glass

label: Dimensions

content: Diam: 0.9 cm (3/8 in)

content: Africa

content: Egypt

label: Title

content: Bead

label: High-resolution JPEG

title: Bead


label: Date

content: 1550-1196 BCE

content: New Kingdom

content: To 1909

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Egypt

content: glass

content: New Kingdom (ca. 1539 - 1075 BCE)

content: Egypt

content: Ancient Egyptian Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

content: Jewelry and Ornament

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: Glass

content: H: 1.4 cm (9/16 in)

content: Africa

content: Egypt

content: Bead

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Bead


content: Possibly Ming dynasty

content: To 1918

content: Wang Jiantang, Shanghai to 1918 [1]

content: From 1918 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Wang Jiantang, in New York, in 1918 [2]

content: From 1920

content: The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Album List, S.I. 38A, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Wang Jiantang 王鑑堂 (late 19th-early 20th century) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: slit tapestry

content: brocading

content: weft patterning

content: tapestry

content: silk (fiber)

content: flower

content: Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: China

content: rock

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Accession Number

label: Type

content: Costume and Textile

label: Medium

content: Color on silk

content: H x W: 19.5 x 19.5 cm (7 11/16 x 7 11/16 in)

name:
Wang, Jiantang
Freer, Charles Lang

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Silk (fiber)
Chinese Art
Rocks
Flowers
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)
Slit tapestry
Brocading
Weft patterning

content: China

content: Tapestries (Ko-ssu)

title_sort: TAPESTRIES (KO-SSU)

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: Tapestries (Ko-ssu)


content: 7th century

label: Period

content: Tang dynasty

label: Description

content: Left foot broken off.

content: Clay: soft, dense, buff.

content: Unglazed. Face and neck painted with pinkish red; headdress with black.

label: Provenance

content: To 1909

content: Ta Ge Chung, Beijing, to 1909 [1]

content: From 1909 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Ta Ge Chung in 1909 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Pottery List, L. 1999, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Ta Ge Chung (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: Henan province, China

label: Topic

content: ceramic

content: Tang dynasty (618 - 907)

content: woman

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Sculpture

content: Unglazed earthenware with pigments

content: H x W: 17.3 x 5.1 cm (6 13/16 x 2 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Ge Chung, Ta

place:
China
Henan province

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Chinese Art
Tang dynasty (618 - 907)
Ceramics
Woman

content: China

content: Tomb figure of a female attendant

title_sort: TOMB FIGURE OF A FEMALE ATTENDANT

title: Tomb figure of a female attendant


label: Date

content: Edo period

label: Artist

content: Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

content: To 1904

content: Bunshichi Kobayashi (circa 1861-1923), Boston, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Yokohama, to 1904 [1]

content: From 1904 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunshichi Kobayashi in 1904 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Album List, pg. 1, Sketches by Hokusai, S.I. 4, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Kobayashi Bunshichi 小林文七 (ca. 1861-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Japan

content: deer

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: Japan

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

content: Ink on paper

label: Dimensions

content: H x W (sheet and image): 26.2 x 36.1 cm (10 5/16 x 14 3/16 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Animals
Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)
Japanese Art

content: Japan

label: Title

content: Deer

title_sort: DEER

label: High-resolution JPEG

title: Deer


content: 14th-15th century

content: Late Yuan or early Ming dynasty

content: Formerly attributed to Gao Huaibao (10th-11th century)

label: Label

content: The illustrious Tang-dynasty poet Du Fu (712-770) lived during a period of great turmoil. Bitter after his once promising government career was stalled, he wrote the poem "Planting Stem Lettuce," using the lettuce as an allegory for wasted and uncultivated talent. Painted images of cabbage, may allude, then, to Du's poem and bear subtle political critiques of corrupt government. However, this quick study of lettuce on a fan suggests that some artists took a more optimistic view, seeing the cabbage as a literal representation of the world. The inscription asserts that if there is abundant lettuce, then the world abounds with prosperity.

content: To 1916

content: Lai-Yuan and Company, New York, to 1916 [1]

content: From 1916 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Lai-Yuan and Company in 1916 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 1022, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This object exhibits seals, colophons, or inscriptions that could provide additional information regarding the object’s history; see Curatorial Remarks in the object record for further details.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

label: Exhibition History

content: Seasons: Chinese Flowers (July 2, 2011 to January 8, 2012)

content: Beyond Brushwork: Symbolism in Chinese Painting (April 29 to November 26, 2006)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Ceramics (March 7, 1957 to January 1, 1963)

content: Centennial Exhibition, Gallery 19 (February 25, 1956 to February 4, 1957)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting, Gallery 2, 1955 (April 11, 1955 to November 10, 1955)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting, Gallery 14, 1955 (November 17, 1955 to February 25, 1956)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Art, 1946 (May 6, 1946 to November 17, 1955)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 1943 (October 4, 1943 to August 7, 1946)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Painting, Gallery 14, 1943 (March 22, 1943 to October 4, 1943)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Paintings, 1924 (June 2, 1924 to March 14, 1931)

content: Chinese Painting and Pottery (May 2, 1923 to March 22, 1943)

content: Ancient Chinese Paintings, Sculptures, and Jade Objects from the Collection formed by Charles Lang Freer (November 15 to December 08, 1917)

content: Lai-Yuan & Company (ca. 1915-April 1921) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: China

content: Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368)

content: Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: cabbage

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Data Source

label: Accession Number

content: Painting

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: Ink on paper

content: H x W (image): 128.2 x 60 cm (50 1/2 x 23 5/8 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Lai-Yuan & Company

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Chinese Art
Yuan dynasty (1279 - 1368)
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)
Cabbage

content: China

content: A Cabbage Plant

title_sort: A CABBAGE PLANT

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: A Cabbage Plant


content: 16th century

label: Period

content: Ming dynasty

content: Traditionally attributed to Qian Xuan 錢選 (late 13th century)

label: Calligrapher

content: Wen Zhengming 文徵明 (1470-1559)

content: Wen Zhengming was a painter, calligrapher, and scholar of the Ming dynasty. As a calligrapher, Wen Zhengming excelled in all the major scripts but most often practiced semicursive script, following the style of the master calligrapher, Wang Xizhi. Wang Xizhi (ca. 303-361) composed and wrote the Preface of the Lanting Gathering while with a number of eminent scholars and poets who drank wine as they worked along a winding brook surrounded by bamboo groves and mountains. The Preface became the most practiced and influential single piece of work in the entire history of calligraphy. Wen Zhengming wrote this version of the Preface when he was 84 years old, exactly 1200 years after Wang Xizhi had written the original composition.

label: Provenance

content: To 1910

content: Worch et Cie, Paris, to 1910 [1]

content: From 1910 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Worch et Cie, Paris, in 1910 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Kakemono and Makimono List, L. 652, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. This object exhibits seals, colophons, or inscriptions that could provide additional information regarding the object’s history; see Curatorial Remarks in the object record for further details.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Old Tales Retold: Narrative in Chinese Painting (April 20 to October 20, 2013)

content: Tales of the Brush: Literary Masterpieces in Chinese Painting (July 28, 2007 to January 13, 2008)

content: From Concept to Context: Approaches to Asian and Islamic Calligraphy (July 28, 1986 to February 6, 1987)

content: Chinese Figure Painting (September 17, 1973 to January 3, 1975)

content: Chinese Art (January 1, 1963 to March 6, 1981)

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Worch et Cie (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

label: Origin

content: China

label: Topic

content: Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

label: Type

content: Painting

label: Medium

content: Ink and color on paper

content: H x W (image): 24.6 x 77.1 cm (9 11/16 x 30 3/8 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
Worch et Cie

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Chinese Art
Ming dynasty (1368 - 1644)

content: China

content: Xiao Yi obtaining the Lanting Manuscript by trickery

title_sort: XIAO YI OBTAINING THE LANTING MANUSCRIPT BY TRICKERY

label: High-resolution TIFF


label: Date

content: ca. 3300-2250 BCE

content: Late Neolithic period

label: Description

content: Wide, cylindrical ring with slightly concave walls, possibly a bracelet; translucent, very pale greenish gray with cloudy veinings and a dark brown area partly covering one rim, sprinkled with incipient disintegration; decoration: incised and in very low relief, lozenge-pattern borders enclose band of continuous, geometric design; earth incrustations on interior. (One long crack and some recent chips and scratches.)

content: Acquired with a box, now lost.

content: Reportedly excavated in Hsi-hsi, Chekiang [1]

content: Duanfang (1861-1911) [2]

content: To 1919

content: You Xiaoxi (late 19th-early 20th century), Shanghai to 1919 [3]

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from You Xiaoxi in 1919 [4]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [5]

content: Notes:

content: [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record states: "Formerly in the collection of the Viceroy Tuan Fang, and said to have been excavated in Hsi-hsi, Chekiang."

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [3] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 1424, pg. 339, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [4] See note 3.

content: [5] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Afterlife: Ancient Chinese Jades (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)

content: Ancient Chinese Jades and Bronzes (November 20, 2010 to January 3, 2016)

content: Ancient Chinese Jades (May 9, 1993 to May 18, 1998)

content: Studies in Connoisseurship 1923-1983 (September 23, 1983 to March 1, 1984)

content: Ancient Chinese Jade (September 4, 1980 to March 6, 1981)

content: Untitled Exhibition, Chinese Metalwork (March 14, 1931 to March 22, 1943)

content: Duanfang 端方 (1861-1911)

content: You Xiaoxi 游篠溪 (late 19th-early 20th century) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Lake Tai region, China

content: carving

content: jade

content: nephrite

content: Late Neolithic period (ca. 5000 - ca. 1700 BCE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Culture

content: Liangzhu culture, ca. 3300-ca. 2250 BCE

label: On View

content: West Building (Freer Gallery of Art), Gallery 19: Afterlife: Ancient Chinese Jades

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Jades for Life and Death

label: See more items in

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Jewelry and Ornament

content: Jade (nephrite)

label: Dimensions

content: H x Diam: 5 x 7.3 cm (1 15/16 x 2 7/8 in)

content: Diam (hole): 6.7 cm (2 5/8 in)

name:
Freer, Charles Lang
You, Xiaoxi
Duanfang

room: Gallery 19

building: Freer

content: China

label: Title

content: Bracelet with geometric decoration

title_sort: BRACELET WITH GEOMETRIC DECORATION

label: High-resolution JPEG

title: Bracelet with geometric decoration


content: 475-221 BCE

label: Period

content: Warring States period

label: Provenance

content: John Hadley Cox (1913-2005), method of acquisition unknown [1]

content: From 1991

content: National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, gift of John Hadley Cox [2]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See “Listing of Objects offered to the FGA by Mr. John Hadley Cox,” September 12, 1991, copy in object file.

content: John Hadley Cox (1913-2005) was an educator and a collector of Chinese archaeological ceramic, pottery, and bronze vessels, predominantly from the Changsha region of Hunan Province in South Central China. Upon graduating from Yale University in 1935 (B.A.), he spent two years teaching at Yale University's Yale-in-China program in Changsha. Whilst in China, he amassed his collection of ceramics and other materials from active archaeological sites in the region. During World War II, Cox served as an officer in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) (now the CIA), and he was sent to Shanghai in 1945 to collect counterintelligence. Cox was also a fellow of the Harvard-Yenching Institute of Far Eastern Studies, an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Michigan, and a linguistics professor at Georgetown University. In 1991, Cox donated 106 potsherds of Thai, Cambodian, Vietnamese, and Chinese origin to the Freer Gallery Study Collection. Cox also left numerous items of his collection to the art gallery of his alma mater.

content: [2] See Deed of Gift from John Hadley Cox, December 19, 1991, copy in object file. This work is part of the museum’s Freer Study Collection.

content: Research completed July 17, 2025

content: Freer Study Collection

content: John Hadley Cox (1913-2005)

content: casting

content: metal

content: Warring States period (475 - 221 BCE)

content: China

content: Chinese Art

content: Google Arts & Culture

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection

label: Credit Line

content: Gift of the John Hadley Cox Archaeological Study Collection

label: Data Source

label: Accession Number

content: Mirror

label: Restrictions & Rights

content: H x W (overall): 9.1 x 5.7 cm (3 9/16 x 2 1/4 in)

topic:
Art
Sculpture
Chinese Art
Warring States period (475 - 221 BCE)
Metal-work

content: China

content: Fragment of a mirror; shan-type

title_sort: FRAGMENT OF A MIRROR; SHAN-TYPE

label: Screen Image

label: Thumbnail Image

title: Fragment of a mirror; shan-type


label: Date

content: ca. 1680-1700

label: Artist

content: Attributed to Wajid (active late 17th century)

label: School/Tradition

content: Sawar school

label: Label

content: This otherworldly painting centers upon a pale goddess dressed in white who is seated on a pink-tipped white lotus that hovers in an indeterminate space. Two massive red poppy plants in full bloom and bud, ultimately based on European botanical drawings that were adopted by Mughal artists and from there by Mewar artists and from there by a painter in Sawar, flank the goddess. The background is a solid field of rich chocolate brown.

content: To 1967

content: Nowlakah, Calcutta [1]

content: From 1967 to 2001

content: Ralph Benkaim (1914-2001), purchased from Nowlakah, Calcutta in December 1967 [2]

content: From 2001 to 2018

content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Beverly Hills, California, by inheritance from Ralph Benkaim in 2001

content: From 2018

content: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, partial gift and purchase from Catherine Glynn Benkaim

content: [1] Ralph Benkaim purchased the painting from Nowlakah, Calcutta in December 1967, several years before Indian paintings were classified as antiquities by the Indian government, according to his personal records, as relayed by Catherine Glynn Benkaim.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: National Museum of Asian Art Collection

label: Previous custodian or owner

content: Ralph and Catherine Benkaim

content: Catherine Glynn Benkaim (born 1946)

content: Nowlakah

label: Origin

content: Sawar, Rajasthan state, India

label: Topic

content: India

content: South Asian and Himalayan Art

content: Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection

content: Saraswati

content: Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — funds provided by the Friends of the National Museum of Asian Art

content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

label: Type

content: Painting

label: Medium

content: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

content: H x W (painting): 15.9 × 24.4 cm (6 1/4 × 9 5/8 in)

content: H x W (overall): 18.7 × 26.7 cm (7 3/8 × 10 1/2 in)

name:
Benkaim, Ralph and Catherine
Benkaim, Catherine Glynn
Nowlakah

place:
Sawar
Rajasthan state
India

topic:
South Asian and Himalayan Art
Art
Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
Saraswati

content: India

content: Saraswati, folio from a Goddess series

title_sort: SARASWATI, FOLIO FROM A GODDESS SERIES

label: High-resolution TIFF

title: Saraswati, folio from a Goddess series


label: Period

content: Edo period

content: Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎 (1760-1849)

label: Provenance

content: To 1904

content: Bunshichi Kobayashi (circa 1861-1923), Boston, San Francisco, Tokyo, and Yokohama, to 1904 [1]

content: From 1904 to 1919

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Bunshichi Kobayashi in 1904 [2]

content: From 1920

content: Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

content: Notes:

content: [1] See Original Panel List, L. 40, pg. 13, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.

content: [2] See note 1.

content: [3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

label: Collection

content: Freer Gallery of Art Collection

content: Kobayashi Bunshichi 小林文七 (ca. 1861-1923) (C.L. Freer source)

content: Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

content: Japan

content: Edo period (1615 - 1868)

content: child

content: Japan

content: ukiyo-e

content: kakemono

content: Japanese Art

content: Charles Lang Freer collection

label: Related Online Resources

content: Google Arts & Culture

label: See more items in

content: Gift of Charles Lang Freer

content: Painting

content: Color and ink on paper

label: Dimensions

content: H x W: 59.9 x 25.3 cm (23 9/16 x 9 15/16 in)

topic:
Charles Lang Freer collection
Art
Edo period, Japan, (1600 - 1868)
Japanese Art
Ukiyo-e
Children
Kakemono

content: Japan

label: Title

content: Standing figure of a tall girl

title_sort: STANDING FIGURE OF A TALL GIRL

label: High-resolution JPEG

title: Standing figure of a tall girl