Puppies

Colors in this work

Artist: Unknown artist
Date: 1700s
Medium: hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: mounted: height 0.979 m, width 0.391 m; painting: height 0.255 m, width 0.306 m
Origin: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Department: Japanese Art
Holding institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Palette: Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #927255 · 61%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #A68868 · 11%

Rainworn Cedar · Brown family · #6A5745 · 10%

Vine Charcoal · Gray family · #52483F · 6%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #3B404C · 4%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #857754 · 2%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #C59F6D · 1%

Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #F1CF7D · 1%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #966440 · <1%

Vine Charcoal · Gray family · #424E4B · <1%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #B18145 · <1%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #6C6E58 · <1%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #32332A · <1%

Raw Ochre Field · Yellow family · #D39C49 · <1%

Granite Face · Gray family · #726A61 · <1%

Kiln Ash · Gray family · #695758 · <1%

Granite Face · Gray family · #6F7179 · <1%

Indigo Vault · Blue family · #30335A · <1%

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Image provider: cleveland-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Gift from the Collection of George Gund III

8 tags

Animals Visual · 99%

Two recognizable puppies form the central subject of the image.
Animal Portrait Visual · 86%

The two puppies are presented frontally as individualized animal subjects, with attention to their faces, bodies, paws, and contrasting coat colors.

Earth Tones Visual · 96%

The image is dominated by subdued tan, brown, ocher, rust-red, gray, and black tones.
Sparse Visual · 93%

The puppies are set within a broad, minimally described ground with substantial open space around them.

Hanging Scroll Metadata · 99%

The medium is recorded as a hanging scroll; the image visibly shows a vertically mounted work with textile borders surrounding the painted field.
Painting Both · 99%

The catalog identifies the object as ink and color on paper and classifies it as a painting; the image shows colored and dark painted passages on a paper support.

18th Century Art Metadata · 98%

The catalog dates the work to the 1700s, corresponding to the eighteenth century.

Japanese Art Metadata · 99%

The catalog identifies the place of origin as Japan, Edo period (1615–1868), and classifies the work within Japanese Art.

Unknown artist. Puppies. Cleveland Museum of Art.