Gallery Location
Not currently on view
- Artist/Maker
- Hasegawa Mitsunobu
(Japanese) - Title
- Courtesan Entertaining Client with Samisen, from a series of Scenes of Everyday Life
- Date
- around 1740-1760
- Material & Process
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
- 255 x 362 mm Overall
- Credit
- Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
- Inventory No.
- 1980.2708
- Classification
- Prints
- Location
- Japan
Related
By 1925, purchased in Japan by Frank Lloyd Wright; ca. 1926, acquired by The Bank of Wisconsin; 1928, sold to 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]
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1990. p. 269
- From Primitive to Decadent: Subject and Style in Japanese Prints, 1680-1880: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1/18/1991–3/3/1991
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