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御所車見立て行列
DEACESSIONED October 25, 2012
Women Imitating an Imperial Procession
御所車見立て行列
Japanese
Edo period
1806 (Bunka 3), 1st month
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban diptych; about 38.1 × 50.8 cm (15 × 20 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.14385, 11.14434
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ukiyo-e shûka 3 (1978), list #245.1-3, pls. 211-3; Shibui, Ukiyo-e zuten Utamaro (1964), 31.3.1-3
DescriptionDiptych (two right sheets of incomplete triptych): 11.14385 (right), 11.14434 (left)
MFA impressions: *11.14385VR (11.14385, 11.14434; two right sheets only; deaccessioned in 2012), 11.14480-1 (two right sheets only), 21.7706-8 (complete triptych), 21.7709-11 (complete triptych)
MFA impressions: *11.14385VR (11.14385, 11.14434; two right sheets only; deaccessioned in 2012), 11.14480-1 (two right sheets only), 21.7706-8 (complete triptych), 21.7709-11 (complete triptych)
Signed
Utamaro hitsu (on each sheet)
歌麿筆
歌麿筆
Marks
Censor's seals: kiwame, shô (i.e. first month)
改印：極、正
改印：極、正
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.