# Snails, in Japanese painting

Nagasawa Rosetsu painted this in about 1788–89, aged about 29. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> In this work, Nagasawa Rosetsu carefully described two snails in a manner known as “earth painting” ( doro-e ), building up colors mixed with crushed white shells in emulation of the thick brushstrokes of oil paint seen in European painting.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: c. 1788–89
- Medium: Hanging scroll; ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper
- Dimensions: Image: 114.3 x 40.6 cm (45 x 16 in.); Overall: 200.7 x 54 cm (79 x 21 1/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.5
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Nagasawa Rosetsu](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/nagasawa-rosetsu), Japanese, 1754–1799

1 works in the collection.

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