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Seven Drunken Shôjô, a Triptych (Shichinin shôjô meitei no zu, sanpuku no uchi)


「七人猩々酩酊之図 三幅之内」
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 x 70.7 cm (14 3/16 x 27 13/16 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14524-6
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Hizô Ukiyo-e taikan/Ukiyo-e Masterpieces in European Collections 10, Museo d'Arte Orientale, Genoa, I (1988), pl. 151; Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #88.1-3; Ukiyo-e shûka 12 (1980), pls. 176-8
DescriptionTriptych: 11.14524 (right), 11.14525 (center), 11.14526 (left)

MFA impressions: 11.14524-6 (complete triptych), 21.6364 (right sheet only)
Signed Utamaro suichû hitsu (on each sheet)
歌麿酔中筆
Marks No censor's seal
改印:なし
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.