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Picture of a Dutch Woman Holding a Cup and Showing Affection for Her Child, from the series Life Sketches of Foreigners

Picture of a Dutch Woman Holding a Cup and Showing Affection for Her Child, from the series Life Sketches of Foreigners

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Hashimoto Sadahide

Sadahide, a student of Kunisada, specialized in prints depicting foreigners who inhabited the port city of Yokohama. His most notable designs for “pictures of Yokohama” or Yokohama-e, were elaborate multisheet compositions of vast landscape maps of the city and its surroundings. This print of a Dutch woman with child, who is perched on the shoulder of a maid, includes many exotic details that fascinated Japanese viewers. The long-stemmed wine glass, distinctive coifs, unusual jewelry, ruffled dresses with puffed sleeves, and foreign children—who were rarely seen in the early years of the port’s opening—all added to the print’s appeal. Many Yokohama-e were based on engravings published in European magazines in the 1820s that were being imported into Japan. Contrasting light and dark pigments on the surface of the garments attempt to replicate the three-dimensional shading visible in those illustrations.
Artist
Hashimoto Sadahide
(Japanese, 1807 - 1873)
Title
Picture of a Dutch Woman Holding a Cup and Showing Affection for Her Child, from the series Life Sketches of Foreigners
Date
11/1860
Medium
Color woodcut
Dimensions
253 x 369 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Accession No.
1980.2755
Classification
Prints
Geography
Japan

Related

15 June 1935, gifted by Judson D. Metzgar (Los Angeles, CA and Moline, IL) to Mrs. Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Van Vleck’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Cambridge, MA); 9 January 1980, bequeathed by John H. Van Vleck to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Mueller, Laura. "Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School." Leiden, The Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2007. p. 191, no. 180
  • Newland, Amy Reigle ed. "The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints." Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2006. p. 267, no. 201
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 277

  • Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900: Chazen Museum of Art, 11/2/2009–11/26/2009
  • Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School: Chazen Museum of Art, 11/3/2007–1/6/2008

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