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Actor Ichikawa Danzô IV in His Dressing Room with Segawa Kikunojô III, from an untitled series of actors backstage


楽屋の四代目市川団蔵と三代目瀬川菊之丞
Katsukawa Shunshô (Japanese, 1726–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1782–83 (Tenmei 2–3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.6 x 25 cm (15 3/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14873
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Golden Age (2010), #117; other prints in the series: Clark et al., The Actor's Image (1994), cat. nos. 461-5
Signed Shunshô ga
春章画
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.