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夜の梅と芸者
Geisha at Night under Plum Blossoms
夜の梅と芸者
Keisai Eisen (Japanese, 1790–1848)
Japanese
Edo period
late 1820s
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Shikishiban diptych; 20.8 x 36.7 cm (8 3/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.26691-2
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CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Ohki w/ Haliburton, Private World of Surimono (2020), checklist #77 (complete diptych); Chiba City Museum of Art, Keisai Eisen (2012), #215 (complete); Chiba Museum, Edo no surimono (1997), #290 (L only); Hillier, Vever cat. 3 (1976), #803 (R only)
DescriptionDiptych: 11.26691 (left), 11.26692 (right)
Signed
Keisai Eisen ga (on right sheet), Ippitsuan Eisen ga (on left sheet)
渓斎英泉画 一筆庵英泉画
渓斎英泉画 一筆庵英泉画
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.