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Young Man Receiving a Tanzaku from His Mistress
Young Man Receiving a Tanzaku from His Mistress

Young Man Receiving a Tanzaku from His Mistress

Former TitleLeft Sheet of a Triptych
Artist Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753 - 1806)
MediumColor woodblock print on paper
DimensionsOverall: 15 × 9 7/8 inches (38.1 × 25.08 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-72/17
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Provenance

Howard 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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Kitagawa Utamaro
ca. 1788-1804
32-143/148 B
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Kitagawa Utamaro
ca. 1788-1804
32-143/148 C
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Kitagawa Utamaro
ca. 1788-1804
32-143/148 A
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Kitagawa Utamaro
ca. 1788-1804
32-143/148 E
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Kitagawa Utamaro
ca. 1790
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Kitagawa Utamaro
ca. 1788-1804
32-143/148 D
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Kitagawa Utamaro
1793
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Kitagawa Utamaro
ca. 1801
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Kitagawa Utamaro
1795-1796
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Kitagawa Utamaro
ca. 1793–1794
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