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Young Lovers with a Clock


男女と時計
Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1767–68 (Meiwa 4–5)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal chûban; 20.9 x 28.8 cm (8 1/4 x 11 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.19714
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #233; Asia Soc./JASA, Designed for Pleasure (2008), p. 198, #15; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #?, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 49; Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan 2, British Museum II (1988), pl. 34
Signed Suzuki Harunobu ga (on screen)
鈴木春信画
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.