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Birds on a Branch

Watanabe Seitei

Japanese, 1851–1918

Birds on a Branch

1871–1917

Medium watercolor on paper
Dimensions Overall: 9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (24.4 x 19.4 cm)
Object Number 1955.814
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Watanabe Seitei, Birds on a Branch, 1871–1917, watercolor on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.814

Select Bibliography

Fernandez, Rafael, et al. Eastern Winds: The Imprint of Japan on 19th and Early 20th Century Western Graphics. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1982. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.. The Private Collection of Edgar Degas. (Cat. by Ann Dumas et al.). Oct. 1, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998.. Susan Miranda Barrow.. Contribution of Japonisme to the Aesthetic of the French Naturalist Novel: A Study of Selected Works of the Goncourts, Zola and Huysmans.. Ph.D. diss., City University of New York; University Microfilms.. 2000.. DeVonyar, Jill and Richard Kendall. Degas and the Art of Japan. Reading Public Museum, September 29- December 30, 2007. New Haven and London: Yale University Press; Reading, PA: Reading Public Museum. 2007. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Musée du Petit Palais. Giuseppe De Nittis: la modernité élégante. Exh. cat. Paris: Paris Musées Editions, 2010. Moscatiello, Manuela. Le japonisme de Giuseppe De Nittis: Un peintre italien en France à la fin du XIX siècle. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang SA, 2011.
Brooke, David S., Rafael Fernandez, and Beth Carver Wees. Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980.

Provenance

Edgar Degas, Paris (L. 657);* Robert Sterling Clark. *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.

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