About the Artwork
Drying Beans in the Moonlight
18th century
Itō Jakuchu
1716-1800
Japanese
Unknown
Ink on paper
Overall: 79 1/8 × 19 3/8 inches (201 × 49.2 cm) Image: 46 1/4 × 11 1/4 inches (117.5 × 28.6 cm) Installed: 80 1/8 inches × 19 3/8 inches × 1 inches (203.5 × 49.2 × 2.5 cm)
Paintings
Asian Art
Founders Society Purchase, Stoddard Fund for Asian Art
78.73
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, at upper left, a poem: [translated: Ten thousand leagues of vast sky, | The moon perfectly round; | The broad fields desolate with cold white dew, | All the green pods at full autumn ripeness: | The Jade Rabbit will pound them into elixir.]
Stamps, in red, left of inscription: [two seals] Stamps, in red, lower left: [two seals]
Provenance
(Jean Pierre Dubosc)
1978-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Itō Jakuchu, Drying Beans in the Moonlight, 18th century, ink on paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Stoddard Fund for Asian Art, 78.73.
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