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Gibbons Disrupting a Flower-viewing Picnic


猿がじゃまする花見の宴
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Publisher: Nishinomiya Shinroku (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1762–64 (Hôreki 12–Meiwa 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hashira-e; 68.5 x 10 cm (26 15/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19704
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #012; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #113, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 147
Signed Suzuki Harunobu ga
鈴木春信画
Marks Artist's seal: Harunobu
InscriptionsPoem by Kinshin(?): Ki mo sozoro/ hana to musume no/ futa-gokoro
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.