Painting from Flowers and Grasses

Colors in this work

Artist: Tsubaki Chinzan (Japanese, 1801–1854)
Date: 1841
Medium: album; ink and color on silk
Origin: Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
Department: Japanese Art
Holding institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Palette: Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #D8C49C · 31%

Plaster Cast · Gray family · #DCD7CA · 20%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #826843 · 19%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #A1885D · 15%

Faded Gilt · Yellow family · #B7A173 · 6%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #413423 · 5%

Linen Gesso · White family · #F0E7D2 · 2%

Scarlet Tempera · Red family · #DC5649 · <1%

Cinnabar Seal · Red family · #C13F38 · <1%

Shell Cameo · Pink family · #CB736A · <1%

Laurel Cloth · Green family · #636E58 · <1%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #D69F87 · <1%

Apricot Plaster · Orange family · #E38E64 · <1%

Iron Rosette · Red family · #82292B · <1%

Sage Plaster · Green family · #9BA88F · <1%

Etching Plate Gray · Gray family · #3D4840 · <1%

Kiln Ash · Gray family · #53615B · <1%

Kiln Ash · Gray family · #685B61 · <1%

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Image provider: cleveland-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Cornelia Blakemore Warner Fund

9 tags

Flora Visual · 99%

Leafy stems, clusters of rounded red fruit, and a small dried botanical form occupy the painted leaf.
Still Life Visual · 88%

The composition isolates plant forms against an unarticulated ground, with no depicted setting or landscape.

Asymmetrical Visual · 94%

The botanical forms are distributed asymmetrically across a largely empty pale ground.
Sparse Visual · 93%

Large areas of unpainted silk surround the relatively small cluster of leaves, stems, and berries.
Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 86%

The red berries form a strong saturated accent against the pale beige ground and subdued green foliage.

Painting Both · 99%

The object is visibly a painted composition, and the museum catalog classifies it as a painting with the medium recorded as ink and color on silk.
Album, Folio and Fan Formats Both · 99%

The catalog records the medium as an album, and the image shows an open album with the painted leaf on the left and a blank facing leaf on the right.

19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The museum dates the work to 1841, placing it within the nineteenth century.

Japanese Art Metadata · 99%

The museum records the place of origin as Japan and the department classification as Japanese Art.

Tsubaki Chinzan (Japanese, 1801–1854). Painting from Flowers and Grasses. Cleveland Museum of Art.