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Actors Matsumoto Kôshirô IV and Nakayama Tomisaburô I with a Young Woman at New Year


お正月に四代目松本幸四郎と初代中山富三郎と美人
Katsukawa Shun'ei (Japanese, 1762–1819)
Katsukawa Shunchô (Japanese, active about 1780–1801)
Japanese
Edo period
1780s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical aiban; 31.9 x 21.6 cm (12 9/16 x 8 1/2 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14917
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Signed Shun'ei ga (at right); Shunchô ga (at left)
春英画、春潮画
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.