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The Third Month, a Triptych (Sangatsu, sanmaitsuzuki), from the series Twelve Months by Two Artists, Toyokuni and Toyohiro (Toyokuni Toyohiro ryôga jûnikô)


「豊広豊国両画十二候 三月 三枚続」
Utagawa Toyohiro (Japanese, 1773–1828)
Publisher: Yamadaya Sanshirô
Japanese
Edo period
1801 (Kansei 13/Kyôwa 1)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Vertical ôban triptych; 39.2 x 75.9 cm (15 7/16 x 29 7/8 in.)
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14800, 11.14813, 11.14814
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Mueller et al., Comp. and Coll. (2007), p. 16, fig. 3; Ôta Memorial Museum of Art, Utagawa Toyoharu to sono jidai (1994), #137; Ukiyo-e taikei 9 (1976), #s 211-3
DescriptionTriptych: 11.14800 (left), 11.14813 (right), 11.14814 (center)

MFA impressions: 11.14800VR (11.14800, 11.14813, 11.14814), 21.7621-3 (21.7621, 21.7622, 21.7623)
Signed Toyohiro ga (on each sheet)
豊広画
Marks No censor's seal
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.