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芳年略画 「小野道風見蛙図」 「猫活男婦志」
Ono no Tôfu Watching the Frog (Ono no Tôfu kaeru o miru zu); Cats and Dried Fish, Women and Men (Neko katsuobushi); from an untitled series known as Sketches by Yoshitoshi (Yoshitoshi ryakuga)
芳年略画 「小野道風見蛙図」 「猫活男婦志」
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Japanese, 1839–1892)
Japanese
Meiji era
early 1880s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Two horizontal chûban on uncut vertical ôban sheet; 37 x 25.9 cm (14 9/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.22584
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ing & Schaap, Beauty & Violence (1992), #42.33 & 41.34 (no photo)
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.22584 (intact sheet), 2011.884.6 (bottom only), 2011.884.15 (top only)
Signed
Yoshitoshi (above), Yoshitoshi giga (below)
芳年 芳年戯画
芳年 芳年戯画
Marks
Artist's seals
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.