Hawk-Eagle in a Pine Tree

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Hawk-Eagle in a Pine Tree

Hawk
Shichô zu byôbu
鷙鳥図屏風

Soga Nichokuan (Japanese, active about 1625–1660)

Japanese

Edo period

17th century

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

Dimensions 151.9 x 348cm (59 13/16 x 137in.)

Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection

Accession Number11.4809

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CollectionsAsia

ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Japanese Masterpieces (2012), #47; MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), pp. 116-7; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 1 (Japanese ed. 1997, English ed. 1998), ch. VII (Early Kano & Momoyama ptg.), no. 119 (1)

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 MFA.