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Sima Guang, as a Boy, Saving Another Boy from Drowning in a Jar


幼児を救う司馬光少年
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 Vertical chuban; 26.6 x 20.5 cm (10 1/2 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter
Accession Number34.347
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Suzuki Harunobu (exh. cat., 2017), #65; Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #296; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #374, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 136
Signed Harunobu ga
春信画
Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)