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狐の釣り女
Fox Catching a Woman
狐の釣り女
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Japanese
Meiji-era copy of Edo-period design
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Shikishiban; 21.4 x 17.8 cm (8 7/16 x 7 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.30413
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Keyes, Art of Surimono (Chester Beatty cat., 1985), vol. 2, List of surimono copies in square format, #171; Polster & Marks, Surimono (1980), p. 459; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 246.3.3
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.30413, 17.1448
Signed
Utamaro ga
歌麿画
歌麿画
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.