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Women with Maple


Kaede bijin zu
楓美人図
Chôbunsai Eishi (Japanese, 1756–1829)
Inscribed by: Ôta Nanpo (Japanese, 1749–1823)
Japanese
Edo period
about Kyôwa (1801–04) - first half of the Bunka (1804–18) eras

Medium/Technique One of a set of three hanging scrolls; ink, color, and gold on silk
Dimensions Image: 95.5 x 32.7 cm (37 5/8 x 12 7/8 in.)
Overall: 185.2 x 50 cm (72 15/16 x 19 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.7946
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

Catalogue Raisonné Drama and Desire (2007), cat. no. 45; Kajima Foundation MFA cat. 2 (2003), ch. III (Ukiyo-e), no. 290(3)
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.