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Hawk and the Warming Bird


Yukiyanagi taka no zu
雪中鷹図
Shibata Zeshin (Japanese, 1807–1891)
Japanese
Meiji era
1870s - 1880s

Medium/Technique Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions Image: 124.2 x 56.4 cm (48 7/8 x 22 3/16 in.)
Overall: 199 x 78 cm (78 3/8 x 30 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession Number11.4786
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. V (Meiji, Taishô, Shôwa), no. 101
Signed Signed: Zeshin
ProvenancePrior to 1886, purchased by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa; 1886, purchased by Charles Goddard Weld from Ernest Fenollosa; 1911, bequeathed by Charles Goddard Weld to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: December 7, 1911)