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Couple Making Love and Child Playing with Toy Goldfish


金魚鉢で遊ぶ幼児のわきで情事にふける男女
Attributed to: Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725–1770)
Attributed to: Kitao Shigemasa (Japanese, 1739–1820)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1765–70 (Meiwa 2–7)

Medium/Technique Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions Horizontal chûban
Credit Line William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession NumberRES.09.318.9
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Waterhouse, The Harunobu Decade (2013), #659; Ukiyo-e shûka supp. 2 (1982), p. 228 (no photo)
DescriptionOne of twenty woodblock prints mounted as a handscroll, from Mane'emon and other series.
Signed Unsigned
無款
ProvenanceBy 1909, sold by an unidentified collector or dealer in Japan to William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston; 1909, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 10, 1909)