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Parody of the Story of the Chrysanthemum Boy (Kikujidô)


流れのほとりで菊を摘む女 (見立菊慈童)
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1765–66 (Meiwa 2–3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal chûban; 21.3 x 27.3 cm (8 3/8 x 10 3/4 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19443
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Kobayashi, Harunobu taizen (2023), #022; MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #58; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #088; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #392, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 196
Signed Unisgned
無款
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.