渡辺省亭 宝積遊女長之図幅 絹本共箱 本間美術館 旧蔵
箱書「明治戊戌（1898年）應鐘 省亭？人繪」
渡辺省亭 1851年に出生し、1918年、67歳をもって逝去した。1898年は、46–47歳頃の作。『國華』1554号に本作品の御解説の所載。
※ 『國華』1889年に岡倉天心らにより創刊された日本・東洋古美術研究誌。
Seitei Watanabe
Murotsumi Yūjo Osa no Zu Bijin-ga (painting of a beautiful woman) colors on silk Formerly in the collection of Honma Museum of Art
Hanging scroll, color on silk, with box
The inscription on the storage box reads “Meiji Tsuchinoe-inu year (1898), Painting by Seitei"
Watanabe Seitei was born in 1851 and died in 1918 at the age of 67.
The present work, dated to 1898, is considered to have been produced when the artist was approximately 46 to 47 years old.
A scholarly discussion of this work is published in Kokka, issue no. 1554.
Kokka is a Japanese journal devoted to the study of Japanese and East Asian art, founded in 1889 by Okakura Tenshin and other leading scholars.
