Beauties Parodying the Seven Sages - A Selection of Younger Courtesans (Shichi kenjin yatsushi bijin shinzo zoroe): Miyagawa of the Matsubaya
Chôbunsai Eishi · c. 1793
Provenance
Ownership history
- Yamada Baske (1871–1934; also Fukawa Jin Basuke), Tokyo; sold to Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937), Chicago, Apr. 1924; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1925.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
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