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Courtesan with Child Attendants


Yûjo to kamuro zu
遊女と禿図
Utagawa Toyoharu (Japanese, 1735–1814)
Japanese
Edo period
Tenmei era (1781 - 89)

Medium/Technique Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold, silver, and mica on silk
Dimensions Image: 101.5 x 42.4 cm (39 15/16 x 16 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.7847
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné MFA, Golden Age (2010), #143; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. III (Ukiyo-e), no. 314
Signed Utagawa Toyoharu ga
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.