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「浮世人精天眼鏡」 化粧
Woman Checking Her Makeup in a Mirror, from the series Types of the Floating World Seen through a Physiognomist's Glass (Ukiyo jinsei tengankyô)
「浮世人精天眼鏡」 化粧
Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III) (Japanese, 1786–1864)
Publisher: Moriya Jihei (Kinshindô) (Japanese)
Publisher: Moriya Jihei (Kinshindô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1830 (Bunsei 13/Tenpô 1)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban; 37.9 x 25.4 cm (14 15/16 x 10 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.15628
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Izzard, Kunisada's World (1993), #60; Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Utagawa-ha (Kobijutsu special issue, 1986), #83; Ukiyo-e taisei 11 (1931), #188
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.15628, 34.465
Signed
Gototei Kunisada ga
五渡亭国貞画
五渡亭国貞画
Marks
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
改印：極
Inscriptions「出格子にちらりと見たる花の香を誰がかこゐたる室咲の梅 需に応して山東庵京山題」
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.