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Woman with a Portable Lamp, from the series Three Fashionable Beauties in Summer (Fûryû bijin sanpuku natsu)


「風流美人三伏夏」 ぼんぼり
Kikukawa Eizan (Japanese, 1787–1867)
Publisher: Wakasaya Yoichi (Jakurindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
1812 (Bunka 9), 6th month

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.8 x 25.2 cm (14 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17822
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kondô, ed., Eizan (JUM exh. cat., 1996), list #238.2 and cat. no. 108
Signed Kikukawa Eizan hitsu
菊川英山筆
Marks Censor's seals: kiwame, Yamaguchiya Tôbei
改印:極、山口
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

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.