Xiwangmu (Seiôbo), the Queen Mother of the West and Mu Wang (Bokuô) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Xiwangmu (Seiôbo), the Queen Mother of the West and Mu Wang (Bokuô)

Xiwangmu (Seiôbo), the Queen Mother of the West and Mu Wang (Bokuô)

西王母図屏風

Kano Sansetsu (Japanese, 1590–1651)

Japanese

Edo period

first half of the 17th century

Medium/Technique One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink on paper

Dimensions Overall: 152.5 × 350.7 cm (60 1/16 × 138 1/16 in.)
Image: 152.5 × 350.7 cm (60 1/16 × 138 1/16 in.)

Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection

Accession Number11.4316

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia

ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. I (Kano), no. 283(1)

ProvenanceBefore 1886, acquired in Japan by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (b. 1853 - d. 1908), Salem, MA; 1886, sold with the Fenollosa collection to Charles Goddard Weld (b. 1857 - d. 1911), Brookline, MA; 1911, bequest of Charles Goddard Weld to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 7, 1911)