A Triptych of Fashionable No Plays (Furyu Utai Sambukutsui)
Miyagawa Shunsui · c. late 1750s
Provenance
Ownership history
- Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1853–1908), Boston; by descent to his wife, Sidney McCall (1865–1954; born Mary McNeill, also Mary McNeil Fenollosa), Boston, 1908; sold to Clarence Buckingham (1854–1913), Chicago, 1909; by descent to his sisters Lucy Maud Buckingham (1870–1920) and Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, 1913; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Clark, Timothy T., Osamu Ueda and Donald Jenkins, "The Actor's Image", ed. Naomi Noble Richard (Chicago: Art Institute with Princeton University Press, 1994). plate 22
Comparables
Related holdings by the same hand
The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro I as the Spirit of Taira no Masakado Disguised as Otomo no Kuronushi in the Play Shida Yuzuriha Horai Soga, Performed at the Morita Theater in the First Month, 1775
Art Institute of Chicago
A Beauty Behind a Screen
Art Institute of Chicago
Walking Beauty
Art Institute of Chicago
Kamo river party
Art Institute of Chicago
Male Figure
Art Institute of Chicago
Beauties Parodying the Seven Sages - A Selection of Younger Courtesans (Shichi kenjin yatsushi bijin shinzo zoroe): Miyagawa of the Matsubaya
Art Institute of Chicago
New Year's Day in the Yoshiwara
Art Institute of Chicago
Self-Portrait
Art Institute of Chicago
Museum holdings, not sale records. Auction results are only shown when a licensed price source is connected.
Research assistant