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Street Scene in Ikao, Japan

Robert Frederick Blum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The painting depicts a street scene in a Japanese town. The scene shows a dirt road with several buildings on either side. The buildings have tiled roofs and are two stories high. A large awning covers a market stall on the left. People are walking on the road and standing under the awning. There are chickens on the road. A woman in a kimono walks towards the viewer. A man sits on a low chair on the right. A lantern hangs from a pole on the right. The sky is blue with white clouds. The style is impressionist. The color palette is muted. The scene is in Ikao, Japan.

Artwork details

Medium:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on off-white wove paper
Culture:
American
Dimensions:
600 × 489 px
Museum record:
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