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婚礼錦貞女車 三 輿入れ
The Bride Riding in the Palanquin (Koshi-iri), sheet 3 of the series Marriage in Brocade Prints, the Carriage of the Virtuous Woman (Konrei nishiki misao-guruma), known as the Marriage series
婚礼錦貞女車 三 輿入れ
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1769 (Meiwa 6)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Horizontal chûban; 20.5 x 27.5 cm (8 1/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19477
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #97; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #422; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #666.3, and supp. 2 (1982), pl. 395
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.19477, 21.4454
Signed
Harunobu ga
春信画
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.
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.