Chujo Hime Standing Beside a Lotus Pond, from the series Twenty-four Examples of Filial Devotion in Japan

1924, purchased from a dealer on Rue Lafayette (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. 133, no. 110

• 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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