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Wedding Scene: Changing Clothes


婚礼之図 色直し
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Maruya Bun'emon (Bunjudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1805 (Bunka 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.9 x 25.7 cm (15 5/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14333
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #357.2; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 38.2.2; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #346 (all); Album of Old Japanese Prints of the Ukiyo-ye School Reproduced from the Collection of Ken-ichi Kawaura (1919), #135 (all)
DescriptionCenter sheet of incomplete triptych (left half of hexaptych).

Right half of hexaptych: 18.288-90, 21.7688-90
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.