Nagasawa Rosetsu
【Purple wisteria flowers and two sparrows】
Title
Purple wisteria flowers and two sparrows
Detail
Materials : ink and colour on paper
wooden boxed (double)
Size : W 27 × H 135 cm (Image) ・ W 30 × H 212 cm (Mount)
Appeared in "Auction catalogue of Yuihama Shoto's Collection"(March,1923)
"Kojima Kasuke store" with receipt
Artist History
The painter Nagasawa Rosetsu(1754–1799)was active in Kyoto in the mid-Edo period and studied under Maruyama Ōkyo(1733-1795). Rosetsu always pursued new expressions and techniques and loved to surprise and entertain people.