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Shôzan shikô zu byôbu
商山四皓図屏風
The Four Sages of Mount Shang
Shôzan shikô zu byôbu
商山四皓図屏風
Soga Shôhaku (Japanese, 1730–1781)
Japanese
Edo period
around 1768
Medium/Technique
One of a pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and gold on paper
Dimensions
Image: 158.2 × 364.7 cm (62 1/4 × 143 9/16 in.)
Overall: 173 × 380.5 cm (68 1/8 × 149 13/16 in.)
Overall: 173 × 380.5 cm (68 1/8 × 149 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Fenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession Number11.4513
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA, Japanese Masterpieces (2012), #66; MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), pp. 146-7; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. IV (Shôhaku, Jakuchû), no. 7a
ProvenanceBy 1886, Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (b. 1853 - d. 1908), Salem, MA; 1886, sold by Ernest Fenollosa to Charles Goddard Weld (b. 1857 - d. 1911), Brookline, MA; 1911, bequest of Charles Goddard Weld to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 7, 1911)