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Picnic in a Daimyô's Garden


大名屋敷の庭遊び
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1786 (Tenmei 6)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 38.8 x 26.3 cm (15 1/4 x 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Anonymous gift in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number23.188
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #28 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #36, pls. 141-3; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #795, pl. LXXI
DescriptionCenter sheet of incomplete triptych.

MFA impressions: 21.5506-8 (complete triptych), 23.188 (center sheet only)
Signed Kiyonaga ga
清長画
Provenance1923, anonymous gift to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1923)