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
Japanese
Edo period
1810s
Artist Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825), Publisher Yamamotoya Heikichi (Eikyûdô) (Japanese)
Dimensions
Vertical ôban diptych; 38.6 x 51 cm (15 3/16 x 20 1/16 in.)
Accession Number
11.13750-1
Medium or Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Not On View
Collections
Classifications
Diptych: 11.13750 (right), 11.13751 (left)
Signed
Toyokuni ga (on each sheet)
豊国画
Markings
No censor's seal
改印：なし
Provenance
By 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.
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection