A Young Man Lighing a Young Woman's Pipe
Former TitleMiddle Sheet of a Triptych
Artist
Utagawa Tokoyuni
(Japanese, 1769 - 1825)
MediumColor woodblock print on paper
DimensionsOverall: 15 1/4 × 10 1/8 inches (38.74 × 25.72 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-72/19
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ProvenanceHoward Mansfield (1849-1938), Seal Harbor, ME, by April 4, 1932 [1];
Purchased from Mansfield, through Langdon Warner, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
NOTES:
[1] Letter from Howard Mansfield to Langdon Warner, April 4, 1932, Harvard University Pusey Library, Langdon Warner Personal Archive, HUG 4872.1010, box 12, folder 14, copy in Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. Howard Mansfield was a lawyer who collected Asian art and the prints of James Whistler. According to the Archives Directory for the History of Collecting, Frick Art Reference Library, he was a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and served as its first acting curator of Asian art prior to the appointment of the Met's first staff curator.
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