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Dragon and Clouds


Un ryû zu
雲龍図
Soga Shôhaku (Japanese, 1730–1781)
Japanese
Edo period
1763 (Hôreki 13)

Medium/Technique One of a set of eight panels; ink on paper
Dimensions Image: 165.6 x 135 cm (65 3/16 x 53 1/8 in.)
Mount: 169.7 x 139.1 x 1.9 cm (66 13/16 x 54 3/4 x 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.7042.1
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPanels

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Japanese Masterpieces (2012), #62; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. IV (Shôhaku, Jakuchû), no. 3b
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.