24 drawings depicting monkeys.
by Asia - Painting - Mori Sosen (School of)
- Used
- Condition
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- Seller
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Vienna, Austria
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About This Item
19th century 26 : 23 cm. Ink and colour on silk. Green illustrated silk binding, folding screen. Mori Sosen (? ??, 1747 August 18, 1821[1]) was a Japanese painter of the Shijo school during the Edo period. - Mori Sosen is famous for his many paintings depicting monkeys. He also painted other animals, such as deers, boars, and peafowl. Robert van Gulik called him "an undisputed master" of the painting of the Japanese macaque. When a gibbon was brought in Japan by the Dutch in 1809, creating somewhat of a sensation (gibbons had long been depicted by Japanese artists, based on Chinese paintings of the animal, but no one in Japan had seen a live gibbon for centuries), it was Mori who had created a graphic record of this event as well. - It is unknown whether he was born in Osaka, Nagasaki, or Nishinomiya, but he lived in Osaka for most of his life. - Every drawing surrounded by a golden frame, with two signatures; screen folding lossened in the middle. - The drawings of outstanding quality. - Rare.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Steinbach Rare Books (AT)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19529AB
- Title
- 24 drawings depicting monkeys.
- Author
- Asia - Painting - Mori Sosen (School of)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Pages
- Ink and colour on silk
- Keywords
- Botanik; Japan; Zeichnungen; ZVAB
- Bookseller catalogs
- Varia;
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Michael Steinbach Rare Books
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Vienna
About Michael Steinbach Rare Books
Founded in 1972, I am a third generation antiquarian bookseller, based in the center of Vienna, Austria. Visitors are wellcome after prior appointment. I exhibit at the mayor international bookfairs.