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Langoustines
Mori Sosen (1747–1821)
1800 - 1825
- Medium
- paper, ink, silk
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- height 8 cm x width 47 cm x depth 8.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Richard Kruml, 1999)
- 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
Working from nature came first for Sosen. He made countless sketches to perfect his skills in rendering the animals as naturalistically as possible, both their appearance and their character. He depicted the langoustines with virtuoso strokes of ink, using subtle grey and black tones to beautifuly evoke the sheen and texture of the shells.
