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Azaleas: Woman Washing Her Neck, from an untitled series of beauties and flowers


花に美人 躑躅 えり洗い
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Hagiwara (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1812 (Bunka 9), 1st or 11th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 27.9 x 25.6 cm (11 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13638
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 9, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels (1989), p. 267
DescriptionCensor's seal used in 1st and 11th month of 1812.
Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画
Marks Censor's seals: kiwame, Tsumuraya Saburôbei
改印:極、津三
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.