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Woman Helping a Man Put on His Coat, from the series Poetic Immortals for the Arts (Gei kasen)


「芸歌仙」
Ippitsusai Bunchô (Japanese, active about 1765–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1768–72 (Meiwa 5–An'ei 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 26.5 x 19.3 cm (10 7/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19318
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #137; MFA, Printed Treasures (2008), #62
Signed Ippitsusai Bunchô ga
一筆斎文調画
Marks Artist's seal: Mori uji
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.