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Preparatory drawing for Comparison of Passionate Women


Enshoku shina sadame
艶色品定女
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Japanese
Edo period
about Bunka (1804–18) to Bunsei (1818–30) eras

Medium/Technique Unmounted handscroll; ink on paper
Dimensions Image: 27.5 x 303.6 cm (10 13/16 x 119 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession NumberRES.09.248
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Signed Chôbunsai Eishi hitsu
鳥文斎栄之筆
ProvenanceBy 1909, sold by an unidentified collector or dealer in Japan to William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston; 1909, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 10, 1909)