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Flute Player, from an untitled set of Five Musicians (Gonin-bayashi)


五人囃子 笛
Attributed to: Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739–1820)
Japanese
Edo period
1780s (Tenmei era)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.7 x 25.2 cm (14 13/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13868
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 10, Museo d'Arte Orientale, Genoa, I (1988), pl. 93 A very similar, but not quite identical, series: Ukiyo-e taisei 6 (1930), #226
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.13868, 21.5839
Signed 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.