Two Women Reading Books

本読み二美人

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 chûban; 28.3 x 21.4 cm (11 1/8 x 8 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Nellie Parney Carter Collection—Bequest of Nellie Parney Carter

Accession Number34.350

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #262; Ukiyo-e shûka 4 (1979), list #614, and supp. 1 (1982), pl. 284

Signed Harunobu ga
春信画

Provenance1934, bequest of Nellie Parney Carter to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 4, 1934)