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Blossoming Cherry Tree

This is the left, two-panel screen from a pair intended to be viewed together as a single composition. Its imagery continues the arc of a branch depicted on the other (right) screen and culminates in a scene of two sparrows perched on branches with clusters of cherry blossoms and leaves. The imagery is painted in ink, color, and white pigments over a gold paper ground. It lacks an artist's signature and seal. The pair of screens originated as a set of sliding cabinet doors, as indicated by traces of circular damage at the midpoints of the left and right edges of each screen panel, where the handling implement to slide each door once existed.

Department of Asian Art Louis V. Ledoux Collection New York (by 1948) by descent; to his son L. Pierre Ledoux New York (1948-2001) by inheritance; to his widow Joan F. Ledoux New York (2001-2013) gift; to Harvard Art Museums 2013. Footnotes: 1. Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948) 2. L. Pierre Ledoux (1912-2001) 3. On long term loan to Harvard Art Museums from 1981 to 2013. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Louis V. Ledoux Collection; Gift of Mrs. L. Pierre Ledoux in memory of her husband

Matsumura Keibun 松村景文 (Previous attribution)

late 18th-first half 19th century 18th-19th century Edo period 1615-1868 1795 1843

Japanese

Title: Blossoming Cherry Tree

Description:

This is the left, two-panel screen from a pair intended to be viewed together as a single composition.

Its imagery continues the arc of a branch depicted on the other (right) screen and culminates in a scene of two sparrows perched on branches with clusters of cherry blossoms and leaves.

The imagery is painted in ink, color, and white pigments over a gold paper ground.

It lacks an artist's signature and seal.

The pair of screens originated as a set of sliding cabinet doors, as indicated by traces of circular damage at the midpoints of the left and right edges of each screen panel, where the handling implement to slide each door once existed.

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