Suzuki Harunobu (1725?-1770)
Suzuki Harunobu (1725?-1770)

Suzuki Harunobu (1725?-1770)

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Suzuki Harunobu (1725?-1770)
Color woodcut: a young woman catching fireflies on a veranda in summer is grabbed by her robe by a man seen in silhouette through the sliding shoji screen, revealing her body through her transparent fan, signed Harunobu ga--faded and slightly soiled, some worming on upper edge, laid down on mat
chuban tate-e: 10 5/8 x 8 1/8in. (27 x 20.6cm.)
Provenance
Henri Vever (1854-1943), sold Sotheby's, London, Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books, Drawings and Paintings from the Henri Vever Collection: Part III, no. 50

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