Nagasawa Rosetsu

Rats on a Scholar’s Desk

ca. 1794–95

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Dimensions

Image: 50 3/16 × 16 1/4 in. (127.5 × 41.3 cm) Overall with mounting: 80 3/8 × 22 15/16 in. (204.2 × 58.3 cm) Overall with knobs: 80 3/8 × 25 3/16 in. (204.2 × 64 cm)

Collection no.

2020.396.34

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Nagasawa Rosetsu. Rats on a Scholar’s Desk. Nagasawa Rosetsu; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2020. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.