Sketch for the Portrait of Tachihara Suiken 19th century Watanabe Kazan Japanese Tachihara Suiken was the father of a close friend of Kazan's. The completed work is now lost, but several surviving sketches reveal that the artist rejected the concealment of physical defects in favor of a sympathetic realism. In this sketch, the only embellishments that refer to the subject's social status are his sword and the book tucked into his robe. His shriveled mouth and unshaven chin, adroitly captured by the Western technique of chiaroscurowhich Kazan had studiedenhance the impression of intense self-determination made by this eighty-one-year-old samurai.. Sketch for the Portrait of Tachihara Suiken. Watanabe Kazan (Japanese, 1793-1841). Japan. 19th century. Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper. Edo period (1615-1868). Paintings

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Sketch for the Portrait of Tachihara Suiken 19th century Watanabe Kazan Japanese Tachihara Suiken was the father of a close friend of Kazan's. The completed work is now lost, but several surviving sketches reveal that the artist rejected the concealment of physical defects in favor of a sympathetic realism. In this sketch, the only embellishments that refer to the subject's social status are his sword and the book tucked into his robe. His shriveled mouth and unshaven chin, adroitly captured by the Western technique of chiaroscurowhich Kazan had studiedenhance the impression of intense self-determination made by this eighty-one-year-old samurai.. Sketch for the Portrait of Tachihara Suiken. Watanabe Kazan (Japanese, 1793-1841). Japan. 19th century. Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper. Edo period (1615-1868). Paintings

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