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Heron

(Japanese, active 16th century)
16th century
Medium/TechniqueHanging scroll; ink on paper
Dimensions85.8 x 35.6 cm (33 3/4 x 14 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.6335
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
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.
Mount Fuji
Artist unknown, Japanese
19th century
Goose
Tawaraya Sôtatsu
17th century
Ono no Komachi
Artist unknown, Japanese
mid-17th century
Komusô and Two Courtesans
Chosui
about Meiwa era (1764–72)
Eggplants
Yamada Dôan
18th–19th centuries
Fish
Yamada Dôan
18th–19th centuries
Melons
Yamada Dôan
18th–19th centuries
Hawk on an Oak Branch
Tamura Tamekichi (Chokuô)
17th–18th centuries
Hawk Pursuing a White Heron
Tamura Tamekichi (Chokuô)
17th–18th centuries