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Memorial Portrait of Actor Arashi Rikan II


「嵐璃寛」 (二代目嵐璃寛の死絵)
Ganjôsai Kunihiro (Japanese, active about 1815–1843)
Publisher: Tenmaya Kihei (Tenki) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1837 (Tenpô 8), 6th month, 13th day

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.5 x 24.9 cm (14 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.36024
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kitagawa, "Bosuton bijutsukan shozô Kamigata-e mokuroku" (Kansai daigaku, 2007), p. 102; Ikeda bunko, Kamigata yakusha-e shûsei, vol. 2 (1998), #074; Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Zenki Kamigata-e (1995), #579
Description死絵
Signed Kunihiro ga
国広画
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

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.