Watanabe Seitei
【Two Hanging scrolls of Iris and carps】
Title
Two Hanging scrolls of Iris and carps
Detail
Materials : ink and colour on silk
wooden boxed (signed by painter and Matsumoto Fuko)
Size : W 28 × H 94.5 cm (Each image) ・ W 33 × H 175.5 cm (Each mount)
Artist History
Watanabe Seitei (1852-1918) was a Japanese painter from the end of the Edo period to the Taisho period. He studied under Kikuchi Yosai, and was especially skilled at painting kachōga (flower-and-bird painting). He created his own style by incorporating Western-style expression. He won a bronze medal for exhibiting at the Paris world expo in 1878, and a silver medal at the Amsterdam world expo in 1883, earning him high praise not only in Japan but also in Europe and the United States.