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「春夏秋冬之内 今様姿雪の明ほの」
Fashionable Figures at Dawn on a Snowy Day (Imayô sugata yuki no akebono), from the series The Four Seasons (Shunkashûtô no uchi)
「春夏秋冬之内 今様姿雪の明ほの」
Japanese
Edo period
1830s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (aizuri-e); color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban triptych; 34.7 x 72.1 cm (13 11/16 x 28 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26884-6
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), list #133 (no photo)
DescriptionTriptych: 11.26884 (center), 11.26885 (left), 11.26886 (right)
MFA impressions: 11.26884-6 (complete triptych, printed entirely in blue and red), 17.3210.5 (L only, color figure with blue background)
MFA impressions: 11.26884-6 (complete triptych, printed entirely in blue and red), 17.3210.5 (L only, color figure with blue background)
Signed
Keisai Eisen ga (on each sheet)
渓斎英泉画
渓斎英泉画
Marks
Censor's seal: kiwame
改印：極
改印：極
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.