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Young Couple Observed by Female Attendant, from an untitled erotic series

(Japanese, died 1694)
1680s–90s
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color added later
DimensionsHorizontal ôban; 23.5 × 32.6 cm (9 1/4 × 12 13/16 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession numberRES.09.313.3
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
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)