TWO MONKEYS PLAYING WITH A FROG EDO PERIOD ink and colour on paper, framed, signed Sosen and sealed Reimyo lower right (Dimensions: 43cm x 52cm) (Qty: 1) (43cm x 52cm) Qty: (1) Footnote: Provenance: Private Scottish collection, Dundee Note: Mori Sosen, active in the Osaka area, did many paintings of animals based on sketches from life and was especially known for his pictures of monkeys, deer being his next favourite theme. In about 1808, at the age of sixty-one, he even changed the first character of his name to one meaning 'monkey'. He also founded a school of animal painting with his brother Shuho, in Osaka, which paralleled the Maruyama school in Kyoto. Maruyama-Shijo School