
The Actor Shinomiya Heihachi I
Torii Kiyonobu I · c. 1703
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
- Muto Junko, Shoki ukiyoe to kabuki (2005), p. 659, no. 2289 (ID: 1535); Gunsaulus, AIC cat. I (1955), p. 38, no. 12
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