Question Help with identifying painting please!
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Picture of peonies and peacock, as you can probably surmise. The red and white peonies are auspicious symbols (red and white are celebratory colors in Japan), as is the peacock. There is a famous picture of this theme by an artist called Maruyama Okyo, that looks similar to yours.
Unfortunately the name on the back of your picture is partially obscured, leaving just the surname "Fujiwara" and the personal name or art name being erased. The seal would tell you the name of the artist, but I don't recognize it. Amayama (天山)? or Motoyama (元山)? Anyway, the four characters on the seal would be 囗山之印 (something-yama no in) which just means "Seal of something-yama).
The first character looks simple enough, I thought it might be a stylized Maru (円), which would imply your work is a picture by Maruyama Okyo, or one of his disciples, but after searching around on the internet it seems that first character is not maru, no matter how stylized you try to interpret it... so I think it is a derivative picture by maybe a student or some offshoot branch. But don't take that to mean it has no value.
Unfortunately the name on the back of your picture is partially obscured, leaving just the surname "Fujiwara" and the personal name or art name being erased. The seal would tell you the name of the artist, but I don't recognize it. Amayama (天山)? or Motoyama (元山)? Anyway, the four characters on the seal would be 囗山之印 (something-yama no in) which just means "Seal of something-yama).
The first character looks simple enough, I thought it might be a stylized Maru (円), which would imply your work is a picture by Maruyama Okyo, or one of his disciples, but after searching around on the internet it seems that first character is not maru, no matter how stylized you try to interpret it... so I think it is a derivative picture by maybe a student or some offshoot branch. But don't take that to mean it has no value.
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