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Women Overnight Guests, a Triptyich (Fujin tomari-kyaku no zu, sanmai-tsuzuki)


「婦人泊まり客之図 三枚続」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1794–95 (Kansei 6–7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.7 x 25.7 cm (15 1/4 x 10 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1049
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Asano & Clark, Passionate Art (1995), #194; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #91.1-3, pls. 142-4; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 16.1.1-3; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #227; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #7
DescriptionCenter sheet of incomplete triptych.

MFA impressions: 06.1049 (center sheet only), 21.6328-30 (complete triptych)
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
ProvenanceMarch 8, 1906, gift of Denman Waldo Ross