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Woman Holding a Wasp's Nest
Woman Holding a Wasp's Nest

Woman Holding a Wasp's Nest

Kitagawa Utamaro II (Japanese, ?–1831?)
about Bunka era (1804–18)
Medium/TechniqueHanging scroll; ink and color on paper
DimensionsImage: 68.6 x 27.3 cm (27 x 10 3/4 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession number11.7918
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.
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Kitagawa Utamaro II
about latter half of thee Bunka era (1804–18)
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Kitagawa Utamaro II
about latter half of the the Bunka era (1804–18)
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Kitagawa Utamaro II
about latter half of the Bunka era (1810–18)
Kitagawa Utamaro I
about 1804–06 (Bunka 1–3 )
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Kitagawa Utamaro I
1789–1801 (Kansei era)
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Kitagawa Utamaro I
first half of Kansei era (1789 - 1801)
Kitagawa Tsukimaro (Kikumaro)
about Bunsei era (1818 - 30)
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Kitagawa Shikimaro
about Bunka era (1804–18)
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Kitagawa Tsukimaro (Kikumaro)
dated 1804 (Bunka 1)
Courtesan in an Interior
Kitagawa Tsukimaro (Kikumaro)
about Bunsei era (1818–30)