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Actor Segawa Michisaburô I with a Woman, from the series Actors in Private Life Matched with Beautiful Women (Natsu no Fuji bijin awase)


「夏の富士美人合」 初代瀬川路三郎と美人
Utagawa Toyokuni I (Japanese, 1769–1825)
Publisher: Izumiya Ichibei (Kansendô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1802 (Kyôwa 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.7 x 24.9 cm (14 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13507
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waseda db 201-4930
DescriptionMFA prints in the series: 11.13500,11.13507, 11.13508, 11.13509, 11.13531

11.13507 and 11.13531 have the mark of publisher Izumiya Ichibei; 11.13508 has the kiwame seal.
Signed Toyokuni ga
豊国画
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
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.