Dancer

Artist Miyamoto Motoie

Datelate 1600s

Mediumhanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on paper

Dimensions50 x 25.4 cm (19 11/16 x 10 in.)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift from the estate of John Chandler Bancroft

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Object number1901.1344

DescriptionBancroft # 15
Label TextMotoie's dependence on color and pattern to give individuality to the figure reveals the importance of textiles in the visual arts of the period. The figure dances with a decorated fan in her right hand. This artist is unrecorded. He worked in the Kambun-period (1661-1673) style, in which a single figure was placed against a plain ground. Artists working in this manner are believed to have been Kyoto town painters (machi-eshi) who sold their work in shops and who chose the glamorous women of that city's Shimabara pleasure quarter as their subjects. The style is typical of al are number of paintings produced in the third quarter of the seventeenth century, when single-figure representation became popular. This is the only known painting signed Motoie.ProvenanceEstate of John Chandler Bancroft, Boston MA

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