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初春の越後屋
The Echigoya on New Year's Day
初春の越後屋
Torii Kiyonaga (Japanese, 1752–1815)
Japanese
Edo period
about 1789 (Tenmei 9/Kansei 1)
Medium/Technique
Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Vertical ôban diptych; 38.5 x 51.3 cm (15 3/16 x 20 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
William Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession Number11.13884, 11.13991
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
MFA, Golden Age (2010), #21 (R and C); Chiba Museum, Torii Kiyonaga (2007), list #43 (no photo); Ukiyo-e shûka 2 (1985), list #55, pls. 54-6; Hirano, Kiyonaga (1939), #886, pl. LXXV
DescriptionDiptych (two sheets of incomplete triptych): 11.13884 (right), 11.13991 (left)
11.13992 is the right sheet of the triptych but has been matted separately because of condition problems.
MFA impressions: 11.13884VR (11.13884, right sheet, and 11.13991, center sheet), 11.13992 (left sheet); 21.5503-5
11.13992 is the right sheet of the triptych but has been matted separately because of condition problems.
MFA impressions: 11.13884VR (11.13884, right sheet, and 11.13991, center sheet), 11.13992 (left sheet); 21.5503-5
Signed
Kiyonaga ga (on each sheet)
清長画
清長画
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.