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「すかた八景 おむめ粂之助 流し目の夜の雨」
Autumn Rain of the Gaze: Omume and Kumenosuke (Nagashime no yoru no ame, Omume Kumenosuke), from the series Eight Views of Figures of Lovers (Sugata hakkei)
「すかた八景 おむめ粂之助 流し目の夜の雨」
Ippitsusai Bunchô (Japanese, active about 1765–1792)
Japanese
Edo period
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical chûban; 26.5 x 19.8 cm (10 7/16 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19320
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Bunchô list, #315.4; Riccar Art Museum, Ippitsusai Bunchô ten (1978), #133
Signed
Ippitsusai Bunchô ga
一筆齊文調画
一筆齊文調画
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.
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.