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Study in Japanese Costume

Robert Frederick Blum

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

An advocate for the pastel medium and a leading proponent of japoniste subject matter (employing authentic Japanese costumes and other such details), Robert Blum here combined these interests in a suggestive study of a model wrapped in a voluminous kimono. The freedom with which he described the costume is all the more striking in juxtaposition with the more closely patterned, striated touches he employed in rendering the head.

Caption

Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857–1903). Study in Japanese Costume, ca. 1890–1892. Pastel on thick paper with a mauve/gray textured ground, mounted to paperboard and attached to a wooden strainer, 28 5/16 x 22 3/8 in. (71.9 x 56.8 cm) frame: 31 1/4 × 25 1/4 × 2 3/8 in. (79.4 × 64.1 × 6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Henrietta Haller, 11.524. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

Study in Japanese Costume

Date

ca. 1890–1892

Medium

Pastel on thick paper with a mauve/gray textured ground, mounted to paperboard and attached to a wooden strainer

Classification

Drawing

Dimensions

28 5/16 x 22 3/8 in. (71.9 x 56.8 cm) frame: 31 1/4 × 25 1/4 × 2 3/8 in. (79.4 × 64.1 × 6 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Henrietta Haller

Accession Number

11.524

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Artists and makers

Robert Frederick Blum

28 works in the collection