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Dragon and Snake


Chôchin e ryûko
提灯絵 龍蛇
Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849)
Japanese
Edo period
about Bunka era (1804–18)

Medium/Technique Painting for a paper lantern; ink and light color on paper
Dimensions Image: 50.8 x 30.5 cm (20 x 12 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.9113
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), p. 23, fig. 9; Drama and Desire (2007), cat. no. 61; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. III (Ukiyo-e), no. 395
Signed Unsigned
無款
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.