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Young Woman Admiring a Snow Rabbit

late 1760s

Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木春信

(Japanese, 1724–1770)

Japan, Edo period

(1615-1868)

Woodblock print; ink, color, and embossing on paper

Sheet: 28.2 x 21.2 cm (11 1/8 x 8 3/8 in.)

The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.306

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春信画

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Artist's signature: Harunobu ga

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Collector's mark: Vever

Inscription Remark

Henri Vever's seal in the form of combined initials "H. V."

Provenance

?-1942

Henri Vever [1854–1942], France

March 26, 1975

(Sotheby & Co., London, UK, March 26, 1975, lot 53)

1975-?

(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

Citations

Sotheby's London. Highly Important Japanese Prints, Illustrated Books and Drawings and Fan Paintings, from the Henri Vever Collection: Part II. March 26, 1975. Reproduced: p. 56, lot no. 53

Hillier, Jack Ronald. Japanese Prints & Drawings from the Vever Collection. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1976. Reproduced: vol. 1, cat. no. 125, p. 133

Exhibition history

A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988).

Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - January-July 2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art (January 9-July 10, 2017).

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