KITAGAWA UTAMARO: oban tate-e (38 x 25.7 cm.); a half-length portrait of a beauty blackening her teeth with the use of a hand mirror, from the series Fujin sogaku juttai "Ten aspects of female physiognomy", signed Kanso Utamaro (Utamaro the physiognomist) and published by Tsuruya Kiemon--moderately good impression, faded and stained, horizontal fold, random rubbing and soil, small holes especially toward corners, laid down on paper

Details

KITAGAWA UTAMARO: oban tate-e (38 x 25.7 cm.); a half-length portrait of a beauty blackening her teeth with the use of a hand mirror, from the series Fujin sogaku juttai "Ten aspects of female physiognomy", signed Kanso Utamaro (Utamaro the physiognomist) and published by Tsuruya Kiemon--moderately good impression, faded and stained, horizontal fold, random rubbing and soil, small holes especially toward corners, laid down on paper

Provenance

M. Jacquin, Rare and Valuable Japanese Colour Prints, The Noted Collection formed by a Distinguished French Connoisseur of Paris, New York, Walpole Galleries, January 17-22, 1921