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庭に若い男女
Young Couple Embracing beside a Stream, from an untitled erotic series
庭に若い男女
Attributed to: Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese, died 1694)
Japanese
Edo period
1680s–90s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color added later
Dimensions
Horizontal ôban; 24.2 × 33 cm (9 1/2 × 13 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession NumberRES.09.313.2
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Chiba City Art Mus., Hishikawa Moronobu ten (2000), p. 216, fig. 10-1; Shibui, Estampes Erotiques Primitives du Japan, vol. I (1926), pl. XIX
DescriptionOne of a set of eight woodblock prints mounted as an album, RES.09.313.1-8.
Signed
Unsigned
無款
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)