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Yu Zhi Playing her Qin


Gyokushi dankin zu
玉巵弾琴図
Nishikawa Sukenobu (Japanese, 1671–1750)
Japanese
Edo period
about Kyôhô era (1716–36)

Medium/Technique Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on paper
Dimensions Image: 88 x 39 cm (34 5/8 x 15 3/8 in.)
Overall: 195.5 x 61.5 cm (76 15/16 x 24 3/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.7795
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Drama and Desire (2007), cat. no. 19; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. III (Ukiyo-e), no. 173
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.