Lady in a Court Carriage Viewing Cherry Blossoms
花下御所車
Japanese
Edo period
about 1796 (Kansei 8)
Artist Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829), Publisher Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Catalogue Raisonné
Ukiyo-e shûka 8 (1980), Eishi list, #55; Brandt, Hosoda Eishi (1977), fig. 183, list no. 257 (left sheet only)
Dimensions
Vertical ôban triptych; 39.8 x 76.5 cm (15 11/16 x 30 1/8 in.)
Accession Number
11.14061, 11.14113, 11.14114
Medium or Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Not On View
Collections
Classifications
Triptych: 11.14061 (left), 11.14113 (center), 11.14114 (right)
MFA impressions: 11.14061VR (11.14061, 11.14113, 11.14114), 21.4902-4
Signed
Eishi zu (on each sheet)
栄之図
Markings
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
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