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Woman Holding a Fan (from the series Ten Aspects of the Physiognomy of Women)

c. 1793

Kitagawa Utamaro

(Japanese, c. 1754–1806)
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
color woodblock print
Sheet: 34.6 x 24.2 cm (13 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
Bequest of James Parmelee 1940.1031
Location: Not on view
  • Shibui 49.2.3.
    Milliken, William M., Henry S. Francis, Howard Hollis, Gertrude Underhill, Silvia A. Wunderlich, and Nell G. Sill. “The Bequest of James Parmelee.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no. 2 (February 1941): 15–31. www.jstor.org
    Kampen-O’Riley, Michael. Art beyond the West: The Arts of Africa, India and Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea, the Pacific, and the Americas. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall; H.N. Abrams, 2002. Reproduced: p. 188, fig. 5.31
    Kampen-O’Riley, Michael. Art beyond the West. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.
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