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Women under Maple Leaves, from the series Contest of Contemporary Beauties of the Pleasure Quarters (Tôsei yûri bijin awase)


「当世遊里美人合」 紅葉見
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1784 (Tenmei 4)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 37.8 x 25.5 cm (14 7/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.5614
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #1-19, pl. 080; Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #3.19; Ukiyo-e shûka 5 (1980), pls. 175-6; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #345, pl. LIII
DescriptionLeft sheet of incomplete diptych.

MFA impressions: 11.13876, 21.5614
Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画
ProvenanceSeptember 1911, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from the E. F. Fenollosa collection; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.