Ando Hiroshige,
'Sumida River in Snow' from the series 'Famous Views of Edo in the Four Seasons', right section of a triptych. Image 35.5 x 24.5 cm, frame 38 x 27 cm.
'Snow View' (Yuki no nagame), from the series 'Fashionable Genji' (Fûryû Genji), middle section of a triptych. Image 36.5 x 24.5 cm, frame 38.5 x 26.5 cm.
'Kameido Tenjin Shrine' from the series 'Famous views of Edo in Winter', sheet size 25.4 x 36.8 cm, frame 31 x 43 cm.
Gekko Ogata (1859-1920), 'Koto Player' from the series 'Customs and Manners of Women' (Fujin Fuzoku Zukushi). Image 31.5 x 21.5 cm, frame 34 x 24.5 cm.
Not examined out of frames.
From the private collection of Eskil Artberg (1886-1974), thence by descent within the family.
Owner and cofounder of Japanska Magasinet, an antique shop in Stockholm founded 1909 by Eskil and his brother John Artberg (1878–1933). The brothers were active in trading Japanese and Chinese works of Art and also contributing by lending objects to the early exhibitions of both Japanese and Chinese Works of Art, such as for example the one in 1911 at Konstakademin, Stockholm. The shop first focused on Japanese Works of Art and Japanese papers that they sold to the Swedish Artists of the early 20th century, then after the war when the interest of Japanese Art cooled of, Eskil came to focus more on Chinese Works of Art. Both the Etnographic Museum in Stockholm and Östasiatiska Museet in Stockholm hold items in their collections that has been purchased from Japanska Magasinet.