Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Boys Performing a Lion Dance


子供の神楽獅子舞い
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1767–68 (Meiwa 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical chûban; 28.2 x 21.1 cm (11 1/8 x 8 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19465
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba City Mus., Ukiyo-e ni egakareta kodomotachi (2014), #154; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #288; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #498, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 297
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.19465, 11.19466
Signed Suzuki Harunobu ga
鈴木春信画
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.