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Elegance at Noon (Hiru kokonotsu no toki no fûzei), from the series The Sundial of Summer in the Floating World (Ukiyo natsu no hidokei)


「浮世夏の日時計 昼九ッ時の風性」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Murataya Jirobei (Eiyûdô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1806 (Bunka 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.4 x 23.6 cm (13 15/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25166
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #221.3
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.