Young Couple Embracing beside a Stream, from an untitled erotic series

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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

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)