Gallery Location
Not currently on view
- Artist/Maker
- Utagawa Kunimasa
(Japanese) - Title
- The Actor Iwai Kumesaburo I as the Courtesan Agemaki
- Date
- around 1799
- Material & Process
- Color woodcut
- Dimensions
- 321 x 139 mm Overall
- Credit
- Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
- Inventory No.
- 1980.2609
- Classification
- Prints
- Location
- Japan
Related
1924, purchased from Aoyama (Paris, France) by Edward Burr Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 1943, passed through inheritance to Edward’s son, John H. Van Vleck (Madison, WI); 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. 184, no. 170
- Osumi, Takeshige, ed. "Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection Ukiyo-e Masterpieces Exhibition." Tokyo: Bun You Associates, 1999.
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 251
- Competition and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School: Chazen Museum of Art, 11/3/2007–1/6/2008
- Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 10/13/1999–6/30/2000
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