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Temple of the Five Hundred Arhats (Gohyaku rakan no zu), from the series New Edition of Perspective Pictures (Shinpan uki-e)


「新版浮絵 五百羅漢之図」
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Publisher: Sôshûya Yohei (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1811 (Bunka 8)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal ôban; 25.9 x 37.2 cm (10 3/16 x 14 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.17876
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #84
Signed Keisai Eisen ga
渓斎英泉画
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame
改印:極
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.