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Chinese Boys Pulling a Flower Float, from an untitled series of Chinese Children (Karako)


唐子遊び 花車をひく唐子たち
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1780 (An'ei 9)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25.4 x 18.5 cm (10 x 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—Worcester Art Museum exchange, made possible through the Special Korean Pottery Fund, Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution, and Smithsonian Institution—Chinese Expedition, 1923–24
Accession Number54.374
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #163-6 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #201.6, pl. 93; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #251, pl. XIX
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.19351, 21.5573, 54.374
Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画
Provenance1954, by exchange from Worcester Art Museum to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 8, 1954)