KUNIYOSHI, Utagawa (1797-1861) - Three women in a roon. A design for a fan print (see: description)

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Artist:KUNIYOSHI, Utagawa (1797-1861)

Title:Three women in a roon. A design for a fan print (see: description)

Series: From a group of Kuniyoshi drawings collected at the artist's school, serving as study material for the master's students (Ref.Lit.: Matthi Forrer, "Drawings by Utagawa Kuniyoshi - from the collection of the National Museum of Ethnology, The Hague"); 1988.

Date:1840s-50s

Medium:Preparatory brush drawing for a woodblock print in black ink; with pentimento.

Size/Format:c. 12 3/8" x 9 1/4"

Description:A domestic scene: three women in a room, one seated holding a mirror while making up her face, another one standing, and a third, a servant, approaching the other two with a cup of tea. In the foreground to the right a tea pot on a brazier. - A preliminary drawing for a group / series of fan prints of domestic scenes. A pentimento, -attached to the center woman's face - reveals - when lifted - a former version of the woman's face where she is looking right down to the entering servant, instead to the left as on the pentimento (see detail picture). Another, similar drawing from this series of fan prints is in the collection of a Geneva museum.

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KUNIYOSHI, Utagawa (1797-1861) - Three women in a roon. A design for a fan print (see: description)

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Japanese Woodblock Prints

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