Descriptive Information

Title

Pearl diver.

Call Number

E Row 1/GC063/Elephant Folio/Pearl Diver GA 2008.01145

Identifier

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/2801pg46m

Publisher

[s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d. [ca. 1826]

Language

No linguistic content

Date Created

1826

Extent

1 item ; sheet 74 x 29 cm.

Source Acquisition

Gift of Gillett G. Griffin in honor of Dale Roylance. Given 2008.

Rights Statement

No Known Copyright

Notes

Medium: Nishiki-e (color woodblock print)

Collector's seal: Albert Maroni.

Format: Kakemono-e (multi-sheet hanging scroll).

Provenance: Purchased at one of three 1947 sales at Parke-Bernet or at Gimbels Department Store, New York City.

Signed: Gankyôjin Hokusai ga.

"The print you have is based on a preliminary drawing for the painting of a group of Awabi divers from the Siebold Collection. Siebold commissioned the paintings from Hokusai in 1826. They are done in a pastiche "Western" style. The drawing(s) used to belong to the famous French collector Henri Vever. It seems as Vever commissioned this print to be done after the drawing of one of the figures in the above mentioned drawing(s). Date of the print is 1890-1905. The Vever group of drawings for the were sold by his grand son to a private French collector in the 1960s and later resold at public auction in La salle de Vente, Hotel Drouot. The print is very rarely seen." Anders Rikardson

Discovery Information

Subject

Genre painting

Occupations—Japan—19th century—In art

Women pearl divers—Japan—19th century—In art

Physical Characteristics

File Count

1

Institutional Information

Collection

Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection

IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/8312bb92-debe-4c48-9748-d06bb8ab809b/manifest

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