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Woman Fastening a Mosquito Net and Cat


蚊帳を吊る女と猫
Isoda Koryûsai (Japanese, 1735–1790)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1774 (An'ei 3)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Hashira-e; 70.6 x 12.3 cm (27 13/16 x 4 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.21256
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #133; Hockley 2003, p. 238, #A-4; Pins, The Japanese Pillar Print (1982), #279; Gentles, AIC cat. II (12965), p. 225, #97; Waterhouse, Images of Eighteenth-Century Japan (1975), #113
Signed Koryû ga
湖竜画
Marks Artist's seal: Masakatsu
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.