Freer Meets Siegfried Bing
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Print: Charles Lang Freer meets Siegfried Bing (1838-1905), dealer in East Asian art, in Paris, France, for the first time. Bing sells Freer three Japanese paintings, which Bing attributes to the famous artists Ogata Kenzan, Ogata Kōrin, and Tawaraya Sōtasu. Later scholars identify the scroll attributed to Kōrin as a nineteenth-century work, not that of Kōrin.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
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July 1901
Paris (France)