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A Picnic Party in Autumn


秋の行楽
Katsukawa Shunchô (Japanese, active about 1780–1801)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1785–95 (late Tenmei to early Kansei era)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban diptych; 36.9 x 49.7 cm (14 1/2 x 19 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.692a-b
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 6, Musee Guimet I (1990), pl. 142; Hillier, Vever cat. 2 (1976), #510; Ukiyo-e taisei 6 (1931), #187
DescriptionDiptych (two sheets of incomplete triptych): 06.692a-b

MFA impressions: 06.692a-b (two right sheets only), 21.7341-3 (complete triptych)
Signed Shunchô ga (on each sheet)
春潮画
Marks Artist's seal: Chûrin
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross