Lot 312*
NAGASAWA ROSETSU (1754-1799) Edo period (1615-1868), late 1790s
5 November 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £25,062.50 inc. premium
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Edo period (1615-1868), late 1790s
Toad, bamboo and spider; a kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink on paper in silk mounts, depicting a toad by a stand of bamboo in whose upper leaves a spider has made a web from which it hangs; signed at lower left Rosetsu and sealed Gyo; fitted in an unrelated inscribed wood storage box; together with an extra wood storage box inscribed Rosetsu hitsu, Gama no zu (Picture of a Toad by Rosetsu). Overall: 210cm x 67.8cm (82 5/8in x 26 3/4in); image: 122cm x 48cm (48in x 18 7/8in). (3).
Toad, bamboo and spider; a kakejiku (hanging scroll), ink on paper in silk mounts, depicting a toad by a stand of bamboo in whose upper leaves a spider has made a web from which it hangs; signed at lower left Rosetsu and sealed Gyo; fitted in an unrelated inscribed wood storage box; together with an extra wood storage box inscribed Rosetsu hitsu, Gama no zu (Picture of a Toad by Rosetsu). Overall: 210cm x 67.8cm (82 5/8in x 26 3/4in); image: 122cm x 48cm (48in x 18 7/8in). (3).
Footnotes
For another painting by Rosetsu with the same Gyo seal, broken at top right, compare a pair of screens in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York dated to 1796-9; see Matthew P. McKelway and Khanh Trinh, Rosetsu: Ferocious Brush, exhibition catalogue, Zurich, Rietberg Museum, 6 September-4 November 2018, cat. no.55 and p.285.