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暫 「鳥居清満筆意 画狂人北斎写之」
Actor in a Shibaraku scene, in the Manner of Torii Kiyomitsu
暫 「鳥居清満筆意 画狂人北斎写之」
Japanese
Edo period
1806 (Bunka 3)?
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 37.4 x 25.7 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.25194
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Mainichi shinbunsha, Ukiyo-e daiten (exh. cat., 1969), #80
DescriptionThought to have been commissioned in late 1806 in commemoration of the death of Ichikawa Hakuen I, the former ichikawa Danjûrô V.
Signed
Torii Kiyomitsu hitsu-i Gakyôjin Hokusai kore o utsusu (Copied by Gakyôjin Hokusai in the Manner of Torii Kiyomitsu)
鳥居清満筆意 画狂人北斎写之
鳥居清満筆意 画狂人北斎写之
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.