Suzuki Harunobu (1725?-1770)
Property from the Collection of Max Palevsky
Suzuki Harunobu (1725?-1770)

Beauty under an Umbrella in the Snow, ca. 1766-67

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Suzuki Harunobu (1725?-1770)
Beauty under an Umbrella in the Snow, ca. 1766-67
Woodcut mitate-e (allusive picture) of the kabuki dance Sagi musume (Heron maiden) represented here as a young woman standing on high clogs in the snow under an umbrella gazing at a flowing stream within the frame of a wicker fence and willow tree--very good impression, robe enhanced with diamond-lattice gauffrage, gauffrage to umbrella and snow, good color, ink residue, especially at upper left edge, generally very good condition
chuban tate-e: 11 3/8 x 8½in. (28.9 x 21.6cm.)
Exhibited
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999; "The Max Palevsky Collection of Japanese Woodblock Prints," 2001.2.8-5.15

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Previously sold in these Rooms, 28 June 1982, lot 927

For a variant impression in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (11.19503), access www.mfa.org/collections.

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