Cleveland Museum of Art
Elegant Pleasures of the Four Seasons
Kitagawa UtamaroLinkedCulture matchlcp-39e686abde8d
- Date
- c. 1782
- Medium
- Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 111663
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The title of this print suggests a series of four, but only this wintry print is known. A boy has dropped his toy wrestlers as he is hoisted up to a woman who has been enjoying a book at the heated table. Her companion buries her head beneath the blanket to stay warm, her bare feet exposed by a girl tending the hot coals in the pit in the floor.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore
- Provenance
- Charles B. Eddy Collection | (Yamanaka & Co.) | Edward L. Whittemore
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