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Lotus Root and Rat
Also titled Lotuswortel en rat
Shibata Zeshin (Tokyo, 1807–1891)
1817 - 1891
- Medium
- ivory, paper, linen (material), goudbrokaat
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- height 112 cm x width 30.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of J.P. Filedt Kok, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Shibata Zeshin was a successful lacquerer and print designer, as well as a painter. Here he created a simple, yet refined composition, with the tiny figure of the rat on the large lotus root. The animal’s fur is rendered with subtle brushwork, which like the colours and texture of the lotus root, was applied while the paper was still wet.
