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Tartar Envoys Bringing Tribute


Dattanjin chôkô zu byôbu
韃靼人朝貢図屏風
Attributed to: Kano Eitoku (Japanese, 1543–1590)
Japanese
Momoyama period
latter half of the 16th century

Medium/Technique Two-panel folding screen; ink and color on gold-leafed paper
Dimensions Image: 153.2 × 170.4 cm (60 5/16 × 67 1/16 in.)
Overall: 172.7 × 189.2 cm (68 × 74 1/2 in.)
Credit Line Fenollosa-Weld Collection
Accession Number11.4450
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Japanese Masterpieces (2012), #43; MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), pp. 104-5; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 1 (Japanese ed. 1997, English ed. 1998), ch. VII (Early Kano & Momoyama ptg.), no. 57
ProvenanceBefore 1886, acquired in Japan by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (b. 1853 - d. 1908), Salem, MA; 1886, sold with the Fenollosa collection to Charles Goddard Weld (b. 1857 - d. 1911), Brookline, MA; 1911, bequest of Charles Goddard Weld to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 7, 1911)