Woman Holding Hand Drum

Tuzumi wo utsu bijin to cho
鼓を打つ美人と蝶

Nakazawa Hiromitsu (Japanese, 1874–1964)
Publisher: Japanese Postcard Association (Nihon hagaki kai)
Printer: Mitsuma Lithograph Printing (Mitsuma sekiin)

Japanese

Late Meiji era

Medium/Technique Color lithograph; ink and metallic pigment on card stock; right edge is perforated

Dimensions Overall: 13.8 x 8.8 cm (5 7/16 x 3 7/16 in.)

Credit Line Museum purchase with funds donated by Leonard A. Lauder

Accession Number2003.482

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPostcards

Catalogue Raisonné Ikuta, Nihon no bijutsu ehagaki (2006), #82; MFA, The Art of the Japanese Postcard (2004), cat. #182; Barros coll. exh. cat. (Sogo Mus., Yokohama, 1992), #III-11

ProvenanceBy 1991 Philippe Barros, Paris, France; by 2002 to Karl Jaeger, Bath, England; June 18, 2003 Sale by Karl Jaeger at Christie's London, lot 401, and purchased by the MFA.