Lot Essay
In her catalogue of the Clarence Buckingham Collection in the Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Gunsaulus attributes this print to Harushige. Jack Hillier "rejects this supposition" in his entry for this image in Suzuki Harunobu: An exhibition of his colour-prints and illustrated books on the occasion of his death in 1770, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970), no. 205, but others have remarked that the drawing of the faces and composition resemble the work of Harushige more than Harunobu.