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A Courtesan Beautiful as a Flower and a Bride from a Teahouse (Oiran no hana, chaya no hanayome), from the series Matching Flowers and Comparing Makeup (Hana awase keshô kurabe)


「花合せ化粧くらへ おいらんの花 茶やの花よめ」
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1801–02 (Kyôwa 1–2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical aiban; 34 x 22.6 cm (13 3/8 x 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22294
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #138.2
Signed Utamaro hitsu
歌麿筆
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
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.