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牡丹に孔雀
Peacock and Peonies
牡丹に孔雀
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
1830s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Ôtanzaku; 37.8 x 17.1 cm (14 7/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.1158
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Mann, Sixty Years (2021), #120; Ôta Mem. Mus., Hiroshige kachôga ten (1997), #6; RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #s 72, 254; Hizô 5 (1989), pl. 134; Rijksmuseum cat. IV (1984), p. 29, #33; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 241, ôtanzaku #6.6
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1158, 11.2131, 11.21130, *11.39604 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.7907
No publisher's mark on this impression.
Poetic inscription translated in Mann, Sixty Years with Japanese Prints (2021), p. 314.
No publisher's mark on this impression.
Poetic inscription translated in Mann, Sixty Years with Japanese Prints (2021), p. 314.
Signed
Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
広重筆
InscriptionsChinese inscription by Yûsai (=Hiroshige)
牡丹花冨貴者也 幽斎
牡丹花冨貴者也 幽斎
Provenance1900, purchased by Denman Waldo Ross from Yamanaka & Co., New York; 1906 gift of Denman Waldo Ross, Cambridge, Massachusetts to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 8, 1906)