Beauties of the Three Capitals: Shimabara in Kyoto (right), Yoshiwara in Edo (center), and Shinmachi in Osaka (left)
Torii Kiyohiro · c. 1755
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Gunsaulus, AIC cat. I (1955), p. 236, no. 9
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