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Woman and Servant in Snow


雪中美人
Eishôsai Chôki (Japanese, active about 1780–1810)
Japanese
Edo period
1790s–1810s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.2 x 25.3 cm (15 1/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14217
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e taikei 6 (1975), #23 (first edition); TNM Ukiyo-e cat. 2 (1962), #2159; Ukiyo-e taisei 7 (1931), #452
DescriptionSecond edition, with mica background and lacking signature. Original publisher: Tsutaya Jûzaburô.
Signed (this edition 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.