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Wisdom

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Wisdom

1899

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The story

Wisdom is one panel of Kuroda Seiki's triptych of nude women, which won a silver medal at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Kuroda had already set off a press furor in 1895 by showing the first nude painting publicly exhibited in Japan.

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Object details

Title: Wisdom
Artist: Kuroda Seiki
Date: 1899
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Kuroda Memorial Hall, Tokyo (KU-a054)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0724
Original image: 1641 × 3000 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Kuroda Seiki. Wisdom. 1899. Kuroda Memorial Hall, Tokyo (KU-a054). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0724/

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