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Women in a Pleasure Boat


美人の舟遊び
Chôkôsai Eishô (Japanese, active 1780–1800)
Publisher: Yamaguchiya Chûemon (Chûsuke) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 39.1 x 26.5 cm (15 3/8 x 10 7/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14908
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #584 (complete triptych)
DescriptionRight sheet of incomplete triptych.
Signed Eishô ga
栄昌画
Marks No censor's seal
Collector's seal: unidentified
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.