Young Woman Tying Her Obi beside a Bamboo Bench – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Young Woman Tying Her Obi beside a Bamboo Bench

Young Woman Tying Her Obi beside a Bamboo Bench

水辺で涼む女

Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)

Japanese

Edo period

1765 (Meiwa 2)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions Vertical chûban; 27.8 x 21.2 cm (10 15/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection

Accession Number21.4592

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #067; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #160.2, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 177

DescriptionRight sheet of an incomplete diptych (or possibly triptych).

MFA impressions: 11.13402 (first state, with calendar marks on the smoking set and signature of designer Shisen), 21.4592 (second state, with calendar marks and signature removed)

Signed Unsigned
無款

ProvenanceAugust 1919, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frederick W. Gookin; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.