Birds of a Flowering Branch, Watanabe Seitei
In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Use zoom or download icons below the image.
Roughly 14×11 inches (36x27cm), ink and color on silk. The listing doesn’t say what kind of “color”. The white flowers look to me like opaque watercolor, but I don’t know.
The museum lists the piece as an album leaf, and there are links to similar works by the same artist at the bottom of the page.
Link: Birds of a Flowering Branch, Met Museum
Such wonderful mastery of such an incredibly challenging medium.
Thanks Charley.
Bill
Since it’s painted on silk, the white is probably pigment with a binder, like rabbit-skin glue.
That makes sense; thanks.