Kano Tan'yū

Gibbons Reaching for the Moon

1600s

Dating

Date range

Tradition / school

Japan

Held at

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink and light color on silk

Dimensions

Painting: 170 x 33.9 cm (66 15/16 x 13 3/8 in.); Overall with knobs: 234 x 40.1 cm (92 1/8 x 15 13/16 in.)

Collection no.

2015.478

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0License details

Kano Tan’yū (Japanese, 1602–1674); The Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift from the Collection of George Gund III. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression of the source reproduction.