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DEACESSIONED June 20, 2019

Peacock and Peonies


牡丹に孔雀
Utagawa Hiroshige I (Japanese, 1797–1858)
Japanese
Edo period
1830s

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Ôtanzaku; 37.9 x 17 cm (14 15/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.39604
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mann, Sixty Years (2021), #120; Ôta Mem. Mus., Hiroshige kachôga ten (1997), #6; RISD, Yomigaeru bi (1990), #s 72, 254; Rijksmuseum cat. IV (1984), p. 29, #33; Ukiyo-e shûka 14 (1981), Hiroshige list, p. 241, ôtanzaku #6.6
DescriptionMFA impressions: 06.1158, 11.2131, 11.21130, *11.39604 (deaccessioned in 2019), 21.7907

No publisher's mark on this impression.
Poetic inscription translated in Mann, Sixty Years with Japanese Prints (2021), p. 314.
Signed Hiroshige hitsu
広重筆
InscriptionsLine from Chinese poem
牡丹花冨貴者也 幽斎
ProvenanceBy 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850–d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 19, 2005)

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.