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Sunset Glow of Late Summer (Chôka no sekisho), from the series Eight Views of the Four Seasons (Shiki hakkei)


「四季八景 長夏夕照」
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Publisher: Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1779 (An'ei 8)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper, with sections cut out and backed with fabric
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 25.8 x 19.2 cm (10 3/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19355
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #158-4, pl. 029; Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #193.4; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #185, pl. XVI
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.19355, 46.1411 (recut?)
Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画
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.