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Courtesan Admiring a Shadow Lantern


回り灯篭を見る遊女
Okumura Toshinobu (Japanese, active about 1717–1750)
Publisher: Izumiya Gonshirô (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1720s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (beni-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color
Dimensions Hosoban; 33.6 x 15.7 cm (13 1/4 x 6 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19112
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Printed Treasures (2008), #19; Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #115
Signed Yamato gakô Okumura Toshinobu hitsu
大和画工 奥村利信筆
Marks Artist's seal: (unread; possibly Mitsuoki)
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.