Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800)
Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800)

Two Cranes, 1798

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Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800)
Two Cranes, 1798
Signed Beito'o hachijusansai ga, sealed To Chugin in and Jakuchu koji
Hanging scroll; ink on silk
32¼ x 13 3/8in. (82 x 34cm.)

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Kyoto National Museum and Shogakukan, eds., Ito Jakuchu taizen (Complete works of Ito Jakuchu) (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2002), pl. 122.

There is another, very similar painting of a pair of cranes by Jakuchu, three years earlier, in the Mary Griggs Burke Collection; see Miyeko Murase, Bridge of Dreams: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000), no. 120.

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