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Woman Playing with a Baby While Another Woman Cleans Combs

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Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Ômiya Gonkurô (Japanese)

Japanese

Edo period

about 1800 (Kansei 12)

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

Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39 × 25.7 cm (15 3/8 × 10 1/8 in.)

Credit Line Anonymous gift

Accession Number1999.230

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #313.9; Ukiyo-e shûka 9 (1981), pl. 145

DescriptionMFA impressions: 18.305, 1999.230

Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆

Marks No censor's seal
改印：なし

ProvenanceMary Stevenson Cassatt (b. 1844 - d. 1926), Paris; until 1999, by descent within the family of Mary Cassatt; 1999, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession date: June 23, 1999)