Mother and her Children in Front of a Freestanding Screen of a Chinese Lion — Utamaro (1786)

Mother and her Children in Front of a Freestanding Screen of a Chinese Lion — Utamaro (1786)

10″ x 8″ (Horizontal)
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Mother and her Children in Front of a Freestanding Screen of a Chinese Lion — Utamaro (1786)

Mother and her Children in Front of a Freestanding Screen of a Chinese Lion — Utamaro (1786)

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This surimono-style print by Utamaro shows a mother and children before a folding screen painted with a shishi lion-dog, a traditional symbol of protection; Utamaro was the leading master of "bijin-ga" (pictures of beautiful women) in Edo.

Utamaro, 1786 — The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

  • Honest scale — sizes listed in inches — the original is 27.6 × 39.1 cm.
  • Source recorded — public-domain master scan, printed on matte stretched canvas, 0.75″ deep. Made to order.

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