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Woman Putting Out a Light (from the series Modern Customs: Frost Beneath the Stars)

c. 1820

Utagawa Kunisada

(Japanese, 1786–1865)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
color woodblock print
Sheet: 38.8 x 26.8 cm (15 1/4 x 10 9/16 in.)
Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore 1930.201
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The woman's under robe has a painted collar signed Gototei, the secondary name of Kunisada.
  • (S. H. Mori)
    ?–1930
    Edward L. Whittemore [1862–1930], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1930–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Hollis, Howard C. “The Edward Loder Whittemore Collection of Japanese Prints.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 17, no. 4 (April 1930): 64–66. www.jstor.org
    Weisberg, Gabriel P., Phillip Dennis Cate, Gerald Needham, Martin Eidelberg, and William R. Johnston. Japonisme: Japanese Influence on French Art, 1854-1910. Cleveland, OH, New Brunswick, NJ, and Baltimore, MD: The Cleveland Museum of Art; Rutgers University Art Gallery; Walters Art Gallery, 1975. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 12, fig. 9
  • Japonisme, Japanese Influence on French Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 9, 1975-January 26, 1976).
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