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月宮殿
Seeking Yang Guifei in the Moon Palace
月宮殿
Japanese
Edo period
1780s (Tenmei era)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban diptych; 38.2 x 50 cm (15 1/16 x 19 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14461-2
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA, Printed Treasures (2008), #71; Yoshida, Ukiyo-e jiten, vol. 1 (1965), p. 341, "Gekkyûden" (description only, no photo); Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 8.1.1- 2; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #127
DescriptionDiptych: 11.14461 (left), 11.14462 (right)
Signed
Utamaro ga (on each sheet)
歌麻呂画
歌麻呂画
Marks
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
改印：極
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.
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.