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Woman Reading a Book


Bijin dokusho zu
美人読書図
Torii Kiyonobu I (Japanese, 1664–1729)
Japanese
Edo period
early Kyôhô era (1716–36)

Medium/Technique Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions 37.3 x 50.8 cm (14 11/16 x 20 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.7536
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. III (Ukiyo-e), no. 155
Signed Torii Kiyonobu zu
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)

NOTES:
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.