Dutch girl in landscape
- Date:
- Japanese, Taishô era
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- mfa
$2,000–$15,000+. Common subjects: $2,000–$5,000. Key value factors: As the founder of sosaku-hanga, Yamamoto's prints carry great historical significance. His earliest works are the most valued.
Created during the Taisho era, this woodblock print places a Dutch girl within a landscape setting that reflects Yamamoto's extended time in Europe. The subject, a child in traditional Dutch clothing set against flat terrain, merges the artist's interest in cultural portraiture with his landscape practice. The low horizon and expansive sky characteristic of the Netherlands provided Yamamoto with a compositional structure naturally suited to the woodblock format's strength in rendering broad areas of tone. The figure of the girl anchors the composition, her clothing serving as both cultural marker and pattern element within the broader design. The print belongs to a group of European subjects that Yamamoto created as he absorbed Western visual culture and reimagined it through the carved and printed block.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Dutch girl in landscape was created by Kanae Yamamoto (山本鼎) in Japanese, Taishô era.
Dutch girl in landscape depicts landscapes and children.
