Quail_and_Millet_(Kiyohara_Yukinobu)

<i>Quail and Millet</i> (Kiyohara Yukinobu)

Quail and Millet (Kiyohara Yukinobu)

Painting by Kiyohara Yukinobu

Quail and Millet (粟に鶉図) is a 17th-century painting on silk by Kiyohara Yukinobu. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.[1]

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Description and interpretation

This work depicts a tranquil scene of a quail standing beneath stalks of grain. The work recalls twelfth-century Chinese academic painting in its realism and asymmetrical composition.[1] Quail and millet are a symbol of autumn.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "Quail and Millet". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  2. [2]
    Volker, T. (1950). The Animal in Far Eastern Art: And Especially in the Art of the Japanese Netzsuke, with References to Chinese Origins, Traditions, Legends, and Art. BRILL. p. 136. ISBN 9004042954.
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