Brother and Sister Enjoying the Evening Cool (Kyôdai no yû suzumi), from the series Three Evening Pleasures of the Floating World (Ukiyo san seki)

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Brother and Sister Enjoying the Evening Cool (Kyôdai no yû suzumi), from the series Three Evening Pleasures of the Floating World (Ukiyo san seki)

「浮世三勢喜　兄弟ノ夕涼」

Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Murataya Jirobei (Eiyûdô) (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1800 (Kansei 12)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical nagaban; 50.8 x 23.3 cm (20 x 9 3/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Langenbach in memory of Charles Hovey Pepper

Accession Number54.1521

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #340 (this impression); Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #671.2, pl. 200; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 225.1.2

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極

Provenance1954, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Langenbach to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 9, 1954)