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The Four Seasons
Also titled Vier seizoenen
Watanabe Seitei (1851–1918)
1890
- Medium
- ink, silk
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- height 7.5 cm x width 63.8 cm x depth 23.7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (purchase Oranda-Jin, 2000)
- 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
Seitei was a talented painter of animals and flowers. He made prints and paintings on the basis of painstaking nature studies. Here as well he devoted much attention to the cherry blossoms and the detailing of the creatures, for instance the wings of the dragonfly in the painting of summer. In contrast, the waterfall in the background is rendered in broad strokes of the brush.
