Shibata Zeshin

Autumn Grasses in Moonlight

second half of the 19th century

Dating

Within this century

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Two-panel folding screen; ink, lacquer, silver, and silver leaf on paper

Dimensions

Image (each panel): 18 in. × 33 1/4 in. (45.7 × 84.5 cm) Each panel, with frame: 26 1/8 × 34 3/8 in. (66.4 × 87.3 cm) Overall with frame (both panels): 26 1/8 in. × 69 in. (66.4 × 175.3 cm)

Collection no.

1975.268.137

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Shibata Zeshin. Autumn Grasses in Moonlight. Shibata Zeshin; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.