Mother and her Children in Front of a Freestanding Screen of a Chinese Lion — Utamaro (1786)
10″ x 8″ (Horizontal)
$39.00
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Mother and her Children in Front of a Freestanding Screen of a Chinese Lion — Utamaro (1786)
$39.00
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.