Large Perspective Picture of the Kaomise Performance on the Kabuki Stage (Shibai kyogen butai kaomise o uki-e)

Provenance

Jacques Doucet (1853–1929; also Jacques-Antoine Doucet), Paris; sold to Gilbert Edmund Fuller (1882–1960), Boston; sold to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, May 1922; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.

Large Perspective Picture of the Kaomise Performance on the Kabuki Stage (Shibai kyogen butai kaomise o uki-e)

Okumura Masanobu

c. 1740

Accession Number

21561

Medium

Hand-colored woodblock print; horizontal o-oban, beni-e

Dimensions

46.8 × 68 cm (18 1/2 × 26 3/4 in.); Mat: 57.2 × 95.3 cm (22 1/2 × 37 1/2 in.)

Classification

woodblock print

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection