Cleveland Museum of Art
Hanaōgi of Ōgiya from the series Picture Puzzles
Kitagawa UtamaroLinkedCulture matchlcp-39e686abde8d
- Date
- c. 1797
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; ink and color on paper
- Culture
- Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
- Department
- Japanese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 152542
What the image shows
A woman in traditional Japanese attire is depicted in a standing pose, holding a fan.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
In this tricky print, one must decode the small pictures in the rectangle at the upper left corner to learn the identity of the subject of the print: a woman whose name means "Flower Fan," her place of work called the "House of Fans," and what she is doing—emerging from a mosquito net.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
- Provenance
- ?–1942: Henri Vever [1854–1942], France | March 26, 1974: (Sotheby & Co., London, England, March 26, 1974, part I, lot 201) | 1974–?: (R. E. Lewis, Inc., California, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith) | ?–1985: The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–1998] given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1985–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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