{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O134194"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O134194/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2007BP0757/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2007BP0757/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2007BP0757","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O134194/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O134194","accessionNumber":"P.43-1917","objectType":"Oil painting","titles":[{"title":"Japanese Scene with Red Temple","type":"generic title"},{"title":"The Last Ray of Evening Light on the Red Temple of Gi-on","type":"assigned by artist"}],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"Oil painting depicting a Shinto temple with a red roof in Kyoto ","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"East, Alfred","id":"A19305"},"association":{"text":"painter (artist)","id":"AAT25136"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"oil paint","id":"AAT15050"},{"text":"panel","id":"AAT14657"}],"techniques":[{"text":"oil painting","id":"AAT178684"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Oil on panel","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"},{"text":"Shinto","id":"THES49015"}],"styles":[{"text":"British School","id":"x30967"},{"text":"Japonisme","id":"x31576"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2007BP0757"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"B","id":"THES304798"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"oil paintings","id":"AAT33799"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Japan","id":"x29399"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1889-90","earliest":"1889-01-01","latest":"1890-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":"The artist spent six months on a sketching tour of Japan in 1889, and on his return, exhibited 104 small oil sketches, watercolours and cabinet pictures to great acclaim at The Fine Art Society in March 1890. "}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by Henry Louis Florence","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"14","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"estimate","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"10.375","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"estimate","note":""},{"dimension":"","value":"","unit":"","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"Measurement taken at time of assessment prior to BH decant - Frame Dimensions (mm): H-555 W-470 D-70;\nPainting Dimensions (mm): not measured"}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from <i>Summary catalogue of British Paintings</i>, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1973","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'ALFRED EAST'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Signed by the artist"}],"objectHistory":"Bequeathed by Henry L. Florence, 1916\n\nHistorical significance: Alfred East (1844-1913) studied first at the Government School of Art at Glasgow, then in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Julian. During the summer vacations he worked at Barbizon and along the Seine valley; at this time his landscape style was lastingly influenced by the French <i>plein-air</i>painters such as Corot, Daubigny and Rousseau. On East's return to England around 1883 he began to exhibit landscape paintings at the Royal Academy and elsewhere. \r\n\r\nA turning point of East's career came in the late 1880s when he was commissioned by the Fine Art Society in London to visit Japan. At this time there was an avid market in the West for Japanese scenes and objects. This painting is one of East's charming scenes of Japanese life, seen from what he himself called 'the European point of view' (<u>Oxford DNB</u>). \r\n\r\nEast also travelled in France, Spain, Italy and Morocco. He was knighted in 1910 and elected Royal Academician in 1913, the year of his death. \r\n\r\nThe painting was bequeathed to the V&A in 1916 by Henry L. Florence of Prince's Gate, South Kensington, London. The bequest also included paintings by Brangwyn, Clausen, Corot, Leighton and Fantin-Latour.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Oil painting entitled 'The Last Ray of Evening Light on the Red Temple of Gi-on' or 'Japanese Scene with Red Temple' by Sir Alfred East.  British School, ca. 1889-90.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Johnson, Paul and McConkey, Kenneth. <i> Alfred East- Lyrical Landscape Painter. </i> Bristol: Sansom & Company, 2009."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Japan","id":"x29399"},{"text":"Kyoto","id":"x32157"}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"Japanese","id":"AAT18519"},{"text":"red","id":"AAT126225"},{"text":"temples","id":"AAT7595"},{"text":"Shinto","id":"AAT22082"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["P.43-1917"],"accessionNumberNum":"43","accessionNumberPrefix":"P","accessionYear":1917,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-06","recordCreationDate":"2007-04-24","availableToBook":true}}