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Three Young Women Reading a Letter, from an unidentified book


文を読む三人の美人
Artist unknown, Japanese
Attributed to: Nishikawa Sukenobu (Japanese, 1671–1750)
Japanese
Edo period

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Dimensions One chûbon page; 21.5 x 15.7 cm (8 7/16 x 6 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13201
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed (this picture unsigned)
無款
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.