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The Promise of Spring

The Promise of Spring

(Japanese, died 1694)
about late Genroku era (1688–1704)
Object PlaceJapan
Medium/TechniqueSection from a handscroll; ink, color, gold, and silver on silk
DimensionsImage: 32.5 x 132.5cm (12 13/16 x 52 3/16in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession numberRES.09.254
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
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)
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