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関羽と遊女
The Chinese God of War Guan Yu Reading a Love-Letter with a Courtesan
関羽と遊女
Japanese
Edo period
late 1740s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (beni-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions
Wide hashira-e; 60.9 x 15.8 cm (24 x 6 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19679
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #123; Waterhouse, Images of Eighteenth-Century Japan (1975), #49
Signed
Tanjôdô Ishikawa Shûha Toyonobu zu
胆條堂石川秀芭豊信図
胆條堂石川秀芭豊信図
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.
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.