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Slak
Also titled Snail
1859 - 1918
- Medium
- paper, wood (plant material), silk
- Classification
- hanging scroll
- Dimensions
- height 100 cm x width 50.2 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
With energetic brushwork Suzuki Shonen enlarged the snail until it filled the picture plane. This bravura is also expressed in the enormous signature, and emphasized again in the text of the seal: ‘one sheet out of a thousand, painted in a one day.’ Shonen would have been a young man when he accomplished this tour de force.
