Pulling a Kite
Artist
Unknown
Artist After
Xu Wei
(Chinese, 1521 - 1593)
Date19th-20th century
MediumHandscroll; ink on paper
DimensionsOverall: 12 7/8 × 55 1/2 inches (32.69 × 140.97 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number46-53
On View
Not on viewCollections
ProvenanceWith Michelangelo Piacentini (d. 2005), Tokyo, by February 1946 [1];
Purchased from Piacentini by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946 [2].
NOTES:
[1] Piacentini was an Italian art historian based in Tokyo after the Second World War. He studied Italian Renaissance art, while collecting and dealing in Asian objects.
[2] Acquisition documents in the Nelson-Atkins files record that Curator of Asian Art Laurence Sickman purchased this object when he was stationed in Tokyo while serving with the U.S. Army’s Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives section after World War II. See "Objects Acquired for the Museum by Laurence Sickman," Nelson-Atkins Archives, RG80-15 William Rockhill Nelson Trust Records, series 9, box 11.
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