Two Ducks Swimming Among Reeds
- Date:
- c. 1834/39
- Medium:
- Color woodblock print; chu-tanzaku
- Format:
- Tanzaku
- Source:
- Art Institute of Chicago
Description
Two ducks paddle among reed stems in this chu-tanzaku print from around 1834–39. The vertical format frames the birds in a sliver of wetland — brown stems, dark water, and the ducks' plumage rendered with careful attention to the difference between the male's iridescent head and the female's mottled brown. Such paired-bird subjects carried associations of conjugal fidelity in Japanese artistic tradition.
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Two Ducks Swimming Among Reeds was created by Utagawa Hiroshige (歌川広重) in c. 1834/39.
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