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Three Women Playing Musical Instruments


Sankyoku gassô zu
三曲合奏図
Katsushika Ôi (Japanese, active about 1818–after 1854)
Japanese
Edo period
Bunsei (1818 - 30) - Tenpô (1830 - 44) eras

Medium/Technique Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions Image: 46.5 x 67.5 cm (18 5/16 x 26 9/16 in.)
Overall: 132 x 90 cm (51 15/16 x 35 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.7689
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Hokusai (2013), #142; MFA Highlights: Arts of Japan (2008), p. 175; Drama and Desire (2007), cat. no. 69; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. III (Ukiyo-e), no. 443; MFA, Bosuton bijutsukan nikuhitsu ukiyo-e, v. 3 (2000), pl. 91
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.