UTAMARO: nagaban (53 x 19.3cm.); a mother turning her head to look at her baby playing in the hem of her gauze robe as his amused nurse grasps his sash, signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Iwatoya Cho, collar of the inner robe of the mother applied with silver mica--very good impression, slightly faded, a minor stain on the bottom

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UTAMARO: nagaban (53 x 19.3cm.); a mother turning her head to look at her baby playing in the hem of her gauze robe as his amused nurse grasps his sash, signed Utamaro hitsu and published by Iwatoya Cho, collar of the inner robe of the mother applied with silver mica--very good impression, slightly faded, a minor stain on the bottom

拍品专文

Other impressions are held by the Muses Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles (see Asano Shugo, and Timothy Clark, The Passionate Art of Kitagawa Utamaro [London and Tokyo: British Museum Press and Asahi Shimbun, 1995], pl. 339; and Roger Keyes, et al., Berugi oritsu bijutsu rekishi hakubutsukan, Amusuterudamu kokuritsu bijutsukan/Muses Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles..., vol. 13 of Ukiyo-e shuka [Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1981], pl. 33); and Tokyo National Museum (Tokyo National Museum, ed., vol. 2 of Tokyo kokuritsu hakubutsukan zuhan mokuroku: Ukiyo-e hanga hen/Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum [Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum, 1974], no. 1935).

For other impressions see Shibui Kiyoshi, Utamaro, vol. 13 of Ukiyo-e zuten (Tokyo: Kazama Shobo, 1973). p. 228; Vignier and Inada, Utamaro..., Estampes Japonaises: Tires des Collection de...et Exposes au Muse des Arts Dcoratifs en Janvier 1912, reprinted in 2 vols. (Geneva: Minkoff Reprint, 1973), pl. XCVI, no. 227; Yoshida Teruji, Ranjuku jidai II, vol. 7 of Ukiyo-e taisei (Tokyo: Toho Shoin, 1931), no. 351.

Another impression was was sold in these Rooms, 17 October, 1990, lot 600.