A bathing woman and a maid in a bath house
Details
-
Title
A bathing woman and a maid in a bath house
-
Artist/maker
Utagawa Toyokuni I (1769 - 1825) (designer) -
Associated people
Tsuruya Kinsuke (active c. 1797 - 1824) (publisher) -
Associated place
-
Date
c. 1797 - 1824 -
Material and technique
nishiki-e (multi-block) woodblock print, printed with water-based vegetable pigments
-
Material index
-
Technique index
-
Object type
-
Dimensions
mount 55.5 x 24.3 cm (height x width)
print 36.9 x 24.3 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
-
Credit line
Presented by Mrs E. M. Allan and Mr and Mrs H. N. Spalding from the Herbert H. Jennings Collection, 1952.
-
Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EAX.4676.b
Our online collection is being continually updated. Find out more
Know more about this object? Spotted an error? Contact us
-
Catalogue text
Utagawa Toyokuni specialized in portraits of kabuki actors. After about 1790 he produced bijinga for the publisher Izumiya Ichibei and later created his own style while also incorporating the styles of Kiyonaga and Utamaro.
The triptych shows a woman taking a bath while a maid washes her back. This type of bath could only accommodate one person and so long baths were not permitted.
Interestingly, these are depicted with shadows to give them a three dimensional look, which for prints is uncommon.
Glossary of terms
nishiki-e
vegetable pigments
Reference URL
Part of
