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Young Man Walks in as Two Courtesans Read Love Letter Wall Art
ART BY: Shiba Kokan
Young Man Walks in as Two Courtesans Read Love Letter Wall Art
ART BY: Shiba Kokan
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About this artwork
Young Man Walks in as Two Courtesans Read Love Letter is a color woodblock print; chuban by Shiba Kokan (1747–1818), dated c. 1772/74. The artist is catalogued as Japanese. The original is held by the Art Institute of Chicago, and the file offered here measures 2204 × 3000 px (2.0 MB). You will find it among Prints and Japanese (culture or style), in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 7 works by Shiba Kokan, a Japanese artist.
Shiba Kōkan , born Andō Kichirō (安藤吉次郎) or Katsusaburō (勝三郎), was a Japanese painter and printmaker of the Edo period, famous both for his Western-style yōga paintings, in imitation of Dutch oil painting styles, methods, and themes, which he painted as Kōkan, and his ukiyo-e prints, which he created under the name Harushige, but also producing forgeries of the works of Suzuki Harunobu.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Shiba Kokan →
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