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Comical Ôtsu-e Pictures (Kyôga Ôtsu-e)


「狂画大津絵」
Artist unknown, Japanese
Attributed to: Kawanabe Kyôsai (Japanese, 1831–1889)
Japanese
Edo period
about early 1860s (Bunkyû era)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban; 35.5 x 24.3 cm (14 x 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.42117
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Sadamura, Kawanabe Kyôsai no chôsen (2023), #55
DescriptionMFA impressions: 11.42030, 11.42117
Signed Unsigned
無款
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.