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若水を汲む男女
The Wakamizu Cermony
若水を汲む男女
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1769–70 (Meiwa 6–7)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical chûban; 28 x 20.5 cm (11 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19517
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Kobayashi, Harunobu taizen (2023), #072; MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #84; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #463; Ukiyo-e shuka 4 (1979), list #353, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 357
Signed
Harunobu ga
春信画
春信画
InscriptionsPoem: Haru o hete/ kyô tatematsuru/ wakamizu ni/ chitose no kage ya/ matsu ukamuran
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.