KEISAI EISEN (1791-1848)*

COURTESAN IN MOONLIGHT EDO PERIOD, LATE BUNSEI ERA (1818-30)

Details

KEISAI EISEN (1791-1848)*
Courtesan in moonlight
Edo period, late Bunsei era (1818-30)
Signed Keisai Eisen ga, sealed Keisai
Hanging scroll; ink, color and gold on silk
35.3/8 x 12.1/8in. (90 x 30.8cm.)

Provenance

Ono Shichizo

Exhibited

Ota Memorial Museum, Tokyo, 1983.11.1-24; and 12.1--21

"Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozo/Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art," shown at the following venues:
Sendai City Museum, Sendai, 1988.6.11--7.17
Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka, 1988.9.6--10.9
Sogo Museum, Yokohama, 1988.10.20--11.13

Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, Tokyo, "Edo no fashon, kaikan kinen ten, Part 1: Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e ni miru onnatachi no yosooi/'Fashion of Edo': Women's dress in Ukiyo-e Paintings," 1989.6.14--7.2

Lot Essay

published:

Azabu Museum of Art, and Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, eds., Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozo/Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art, introduction by Kobayashi Tadashi, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Azabu Museum of Art; Osaka: Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 1988), pl. 58

Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, and Japan Institute of Arts and Crafts, eds., Edo no fashon, kaikan kinen ten, Part 1: Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e ni miru onnatachi no yosooi/"Fashion of Edo": Women's dress in Ukiyo-e Paintings, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, 1989), pl. 63.

Keisai Eisen ten: Bakumatsu bijinga no kyosho (Exhibition of Keisai Eisen: Master of beauty paintings in the last years of the Tokugawa shogunate), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Ota Memorial Museum, 1983), pl. 297.

Kobayashi Tadashi, ed., Azabu bijutsu kogeikan (Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts), vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e taikan (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1995), pl. 53.

Narazaki Muneshige, Utamaro, vol. 6 of Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e, edited by Narazaki Muneshige (Tokyo: Shueisha, 1981), pl. 65.