Maid Fetching Water, from the series Starlight Frost and Modern Manners (Hoshi no shimo tôsei fûzoku)

「星の霜当世風俗」　水を汲む女

Japanese
Edo period
about 1819 (Bunsei 2)
Artist Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864), Publisher Iseya Rihei (Kinjudô) (Japanese)

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Catalogue Raisonné

Hinohara, Utagawa Kunisada (Ôta Mus., 2016), p. 74; Seikado, Kunisada (exh. cat., 1996), #31; Izzard, Kunisada's World (1993), #18/1; Ukiyo-e taisei 11 (1931), #60; the series: Schaap, Kunisada (exh. cat., 2016), checklist 1-9

Dimensions

Vertical ôban; 38.7 x 26.4 cm (15 1/4 x 10 3/8 in.)

Accession Number

11.25961

Medium or Technique

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Not On View

Collections

Asia, Prints and Drawings

Classifications

Prints

Signed

Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞画

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