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Women's Picnic beside a Stream


庭中遊楽美人図
Kitagawa Utamaro I (Japanese, early 1750s–1806)
Publisher: Tsuruya Kiemon (Senkakudô) (Japanese)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1795 (Kansei 7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 36.4 x 74.4 cm (14 5/16 x 29 5/16 in.)
Credit Line William S. and John T. Spaulding Collection
Accession Number21.7712-4
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #90.1-3, pls. 133-5; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 16.2.1-3; Yoshida, Utamaro zenshû (1941), #341
DescriptionTriptych: 21.7712 (left), 21.7713 (center), 21.7714 (right)

MFA impressions: 11.14448VR (11.14448, 11.14464; two right sheets only), 21.7712-4 (complete triptych)
Signed Utamaro hitsu (on right sheet)
歌麿筆
Marks Censor's seal: kiwame (on right and left sheets)
改印:極
ProvenanceMarch 1918, purchased by William S. and John T. Spaulding from Frank Lloyd Wright; December 1, 1921, given by William S. and John T. Spaulding to the Museum.