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Segawa Kikunojo II as the Heron Maiden (from the series Ichimura Theater)

1770

Ippitsusai Bunchō 一筆斎 文調

(Japanese, dates unknown)

Japan, Edo period

(1615-1868)

Color woodblock print

Sheet: 32.8 x 14.9 cm (12 15/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.299

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Signature: Ippitsusai Buncho ga. Artist Seal: Mori uji.

Provenance
before 1922
Charles de Haviland [1839–1921]
November 27, 1922
(Hotel Drouout, Paris, France, November 27, 1922 sale, lot 139)
Louis Vernon Ledoux [1880–1948], New York, NY
?–1972
Hans Popper [1903–1988], consigned to Sotheby Parke Bernet for sale
October 5, 1972
(Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, NY, October 5, 1972 sale, lot 84)
Eugene V. Thaw [1927–2018], New York, NY
?–1985
The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1985–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Ledoux, Louis V. Japanese Prints, Bunchō to Utamaro, In the Collection of Louis V. Ledoux; Catalogue. New York: E. Weyhe, 1948. no. 8
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York. The Hans Popper Collection of Japanese Prints. Sale 3409. October 5, 1972. Lot 84
“Checklist of the Kelvin Smith Bequest.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 7 (1988): 292–295. Mentioned: p. 292 www.jstor.org
Exhibition history

Cleveland Museum of Art, 1988: A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection.

Later Japanese Art Rotation (Gallery 113); December 4, 2203 - March 18, 2004.

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).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1985.299