Courtesan and cat

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Suzuki Harunobu (1724-1770)
Courtesan and cat
The first a beauty in front of a tsuitate cradling a cat inside the collar of her robe as a child reaches up for it, signed Harunobu ga; together with a print after Harunobu of a young girl near a stream holding a fan--good impression, faded, gauffrage, losses to upper corners, trimmed, mat-stained, pin hole worming, repairs

ATTRIBUTED TO HARUNOBU (1724-1770)

The three sake tasters

Three women around a sake jar enacting a parody of Shinto, Confucianism and Buddhism, signed Meikodo Sakei ko and sealed Sakei--moderate impression, faded, soiled, rubbed, pin hole worming
chuban tate-e: 28.4 x 21cm. the first; 27 x 18.3cm. the second; 28.2 x 20.5cm., the third (3)

Lot Essay

The third print may be a re-cut version of an egoyomi for 1765 lacking the calendrical marks in the decorative bands of the jar. For another example without signature and seal see Jack Hiller, Suzuki Harunobu (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970), p. 57, pl. 17.

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