Artwork Details
52-1/2 x 26-1/2 in. (mounting w/o knobs) 52-1/2 x 28-7/16 in. (mounting w/ knobs) 54-1/8 x 28-1/2 x 1-1/8 in. (as installed) 13-9/16 x 20-3/4 in. (image)
PeriodSigned: Sosetsu Seal: Sosetsu Seal: Kiho
Accession NumberCaroline Marmon Fesler Fund
CopyrightAsian Art (Japanese and Korean)
Color PaletteAlan J. and Ann Strassman, Wellesley, Massachusetts, purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2000.
三猿図
Sosetsu was a grandson of Mori Sosen (1747-1821), Japan's best-known painter of monkeys, and he followed the latter's painting style. Sosetsu's father, Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841), like Kirei, who did the neighboring painting, was one of the ten top pupils of the great Maruyama Ōkyo (1733-1795), an advocate of painting based on close observation of nature. The composition depicts the idea: "Hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil." It is one of only a few verifiable existing works by Sosetsu.
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