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Courtesan and Wealthy Merchant, from an untitled erotic series
Courtesan and Wealthy Merchant, from an untitled erotic series

Courtesan and Wealthy Merchant, from an untitled erotic series

Sugimura Jihei (Japanese, active about 1680–1698)
mid 1680s
Medium/TechniqueWoodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper, with hand-applied color
DimensionsHorizontal ôban; 22.8 × 33.3 cm (9 × 13 1/8 in.)
Credit LineWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection
Accession numberRES.09.314.10
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)