Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.
Female Dancer
Artist unknown (Japanese, active 17th century)
1624–44
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 59.5 × 29.9 cm (23 7/16 × 11 3/4), including mount and knobs: 124.1 × 45.4 (48 7/8 × 17 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Asia
- Credit line
- Frederick W. Gookin Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This painting was likely once mounted on a folding screen along with other paintings of dancers with fans. The sense of exuberance in the dancer’s movements indicates the new lively urban culture that had sprung up in Japan’s largest cities, with entertainments such as dancing, theater, and brothels available for every budget.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
