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Actors and Women with New Year Flower Arrangement: Bando Mitsugorô III (R) and Ichikawa Danjûrô VII (L)


お正月に役者と美人  三代目坂東三津五郎  七代目市川団十郎
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1810s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 38.6 x 51 cm (15 3/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13750-1
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionDiptych: 11.13750 (right), 11.13751 (left)
Signed Toyokuni ga (on each sheet)
豊国画
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
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.