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女湯
Interior of a Bathhouse
女湯
Japanese
Edo period
about 1787 (Tenmei 7)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban diptych; 38.7 x 52 cm (15 1/4 x 20 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number30.46-7
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #s 31a, pl. 125 (Kawasaki Isago no Sato Mus.), 31b (MFA); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #41, pls. 146-7 (MFA); Ukiyo-e shûka 12 (1980), pls. 128-9 (Guimet); Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #844, pl. LXIX (MFA)
DescriptionDiptych: 30.46 (right), 30.47 (left)
Formerly the property of Edgar Degas. This is the second state, with a slight change in the figure of the standing woman on the right sheet, to make her pose more modest. An impression of the first state is in the Musee Guimet, Paris. A recently discovered third impression, also the first state, is in the Kawasaki Isago no Sato Museum.
Formerly the property of Edgar Degas. This is the second state, with a slight change in the figure of the standing woman on the right sheet, to make her pose more modest. An impression of the first state is in the Musee Guimet, Paris. A recently discovered third impression, also the first state, is in the Kawasaki Isago no Sato Museum.
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ProvenanceGiven by Tadamasa Hayashi (b. 1853 - d. 1906), Paris to Edgar Degas (b. 1834 - d. 1917), Paris; November 6-7, 1918, Degas print collection sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 324, sold for 3,500 francs to Henri Vever; 1927, sold by Vever to Yamanaka and Co., New York; 1930, by exchange from Yamanaka to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 6, 1930)