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Descending Geese in Mid-autumn, from the series Eight Views of the Four Seasons

Descending Geese in Mid-autumn, from the series Eight Views of the Four Seasons

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Torii Kiyonaga

Artist
Torii Kiyonaga
(Japanese, 1752 - 1815)
Title
Descending Geese in Mid-autumn, from the series Eight Views of the Four Seasons
Date
1779
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
258 x 189 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Accession No.
1980.2518
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

5 February 1920, sold by Arthur Davison Ficke (sale lot 200) to Judson D. Metzgar (Moline, IL); 3 January 1921, sold to Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Cambridge, MA); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 235

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