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人形使い 遊女の人形
Puppet Player Holding a Puppet Dressed as a Courtesan
人形使い 遊女の人形
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1773 (An'ei 2)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Hosoban; 29.5 x 15.6 cm (11 5/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13484
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #379 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #305; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #22, pl. VII
Signed
Torii Kiyonaga hitsu
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.
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.