Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Lovers Beneath An Umbrella in the Snow

Lovers Beneath an Umbrella in the Snow edit

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Original – Lovers Beneath an Umbrella in the Snow c. 1767 signed by Suzuki Harunobu. Would you like to come back to my place to look at my nishiki-e?

Reason: Harunobu is a bit of a star in Japanese woodblock painting, and he has lots of other prints we could also feature if anybody knows why the tone references sometimes mysteriously appear in the larger sizes (I was going to nominate this one; mostly because of the decorated cat and the fact it appears in the surprisingly full Commons category of "Harnessed cats"; but I kept occasionally getting a monochrome reference strip top and bottom when looking at the different sizes). He also has some racy prints that shouldn't be viewed in front of prudish cats. Anyway this one is cute and nicely executed; it's a bit grubby in places; I think that adds to the authenticity but I won't pout if somebody wants to clean it up.
Articles in which this image appears: Suzuki Harunobu
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/East Asian art
Creator: Suzuki Harunobu

Support as nominator – Belle (talk) 23:37, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Actually I'm not sure about the colours here. Compare these; I suspect the Museum of Fine Arts Boston copy is closer to the original colours; pity, because I like this muted palette. Opinions? Belle (talk) 23:51, 31 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The ukiyo-e.org version has noticeable differences like falling snow on blue background, while this one doesn't. Either Harunobu made more than one such artwork or they are copies. Brandmeister^talk 22:10, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
That's true; they are woodblock prints so he could have made any number of variations; I withdraw my objections to my own nomination; thanks, Belle; you're very welcome, Belle. Belle (talk) 08:30, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support A very fine Japanese piece of artwork, even with these colours. --Tremonist (talk) 14:46, 1 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support per above. Brandmeister^talk 22:18, 2 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support I do believe that the pale colors of the woman blend into the background and detract from drawing one into the image but I believe that if a little bigger on the main page, it wont be much of an issue and the artwork is worthy anyway. Thanks Tortle (talk) 02:17, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 07:57, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Godot13 (talk) 08:05, 8 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Hafspajen (talk) 14:44, 9 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Two Lovers Beneath an Umbrella in the Snow.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 23:38, 10 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]