![Birds on a Branch](https://media.clarkart.edu/Web_medium_images/1955.814.jpg)
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.
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.