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Woman Kneeling before Seated Man; Illustration of a Verse by Gokyogoku Sessho Saki no Daijo, Sheet 46a from the series Pictures for the One-hundred Poems

Woman Kneeling before Seated Man; Illustration of a Verse by Gokyogoku Sessho Saki no Daijo, Sheet 46a from the series Pictures for the One-hundred Poems

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Hishikawa Morofusa

Artist/Maker
Hishikawa Morofusa
(Japanese)
Title
Woman Kneeling before Seated Man; Illustration of a Verse by Gokyogoku Sessho Saki no Daijo, Sheet 46a from the series Pictures for the One-hundred Poems
Date
1695
Material & Process
Hand-colored woodcut
Dimensions
197 x 143 mm Overall
Credit
Bequest of John H. Van Vleck
Inventory No.
1980.2714
Classification
Prints
Location
Japan

Related

Before 1923, collection of Berlin (Germany); 1 February 1923, purchased from Walpole Galleries (New York, NY – lot 131) by Anna Van Vleck; 1923 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. 270

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