Attendant Adjusting the Hair of the Courtesan Hanasaki, from the series Keisei ehon

Before 1922, collection of Hamilton E. Field; 6 December 1922, purchased from Field Sale (no. 18) by Anna Van Vleck;1922, gifted by Anna Van Vleck to her brother, Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’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]

• Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 238

• From Primitive to Decadent: Subject and Style in Japanese Prints, 1680-1880: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1/18/1991–3/3/1991

• Asia
• Prints
• E. B. Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints

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