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Genre Figures
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About this work
Though rarely mentioned in official histories, Sōchō was an accomplished painter whose talent is readily apparent to the modern eye. For his compositions he chose traditional Japanese stories or everyday events. This scroll is part of a triptych of paintings converted from the folding screen format into the hanging scroll format.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineGenre Figures, c. 1816. Takebe Sōchō (Japanese, 1760–1814). Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper; overall: 125.4 x 49.6 cm (49 3/8 x 19 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1987.72.1
