歌川豊広筆 「納涼美人図」|Woman Cooling Herself
ca. 1800
Medium
Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Dimensions
Image: 15 3/4 × 26 1/8 in. (40 × 66.4 cm) Overall with mounting: 59 × 32 1/8 in. (149.9 × 81.6 cm) Overall with knobs: 59 × 34 3/4 in. (149.9 × 88.3 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Culture & Period
Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)
Department
Asian Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, by exchange and Gift of Paul B. Zeisler Jr., by exchange, 2018
Accession Number
2018.21
Tags
About the Artist
Utagawa Toyohiro · 1763–1828
Utagawa Toyohiro (1763–1828) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist and painter who founded a major branch of the Utagawa school and is best remembered as the teacher of Utagawa Hiroshige, one of the greatest landscape print designers in Japanese art history. Born in Edo (present-day Tokyo), he studied under Utagawa Toyoharu, the founder of the Utagawa school, who was noted for introducing Western perspect...