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Rolschildering
1700 - 1800
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- height 10 cm x width 41 cm x depth 10.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (legaat Westendorp-Osieck, 1968)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Courtesan with letter watching geese. Shihôsai ? Japan c. 1770 - 1780. Ink and colours on silk, traces of gold. A courtesan, recognizable by her dress, holds a letter in her hand as she watches geese in flight. Perhaps she is thinking of the man she loves who is far away. Letters played a vital part in Japanese courtship. Beautiful calligraphy could help one win the hand of a lover. Westendorp bequest.
