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Standing Beauty and Towel on Rack, from the series Portraits of Modern Beauties (Tôsei bijin sugata)


「当世美人すかた」 てぬぐい
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37 x 25.1 cm (14 9/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.44689
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), list #273-1 ? (no photo; says pub. Mikawaya Seiemon)
Signed Keisai Eisen ga
渓斎英泉画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
No publisher's mark
改印:極
版元:なし
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

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.