The Four Seasons, Watanabe Seitei, 1890
Watanabe Seitei, portraitWatanabe SeiteiJapanese, 1851–1919

The Four Seasons

1890 · hanging scroll

May one see it?

Unknown

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

Source
The museum

About the painting

Seitei was a talented painter of animals and flowers. He made prints and paintings on the basis of painstaking nature studies. Here as well he devoted much attention to the cherry blossoms and the detailing of the creatures, for instance the wings of the dragonfly in the painting of summer. In contrast, the waterfall in the background is rendered in broad strokes of the brush.

Rijksmuseum

Particulars

Accession number
AK-MAK-1712-C

In the catalog

Sources

All works

Neighbors at Rijksmuseum

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