id:			111671
accession number:	1930.201
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.201
updated:		2025-02-08 23:56:51.175000

Woman Putting Out a Light (from the series Modern Customs: Frost Beneath the Stars), c. 1820. Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786–1865). Color woodblock print; sheet: 38.8 x 26.8 cm (15 1/4 x 10 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore 1930.201

title:				Woman Putting Out a Light (from the series Modern Customs: Frost Beneath the Stars)
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creation date:			c. 1820
creation date earliest:		1815
creation date latest:		1825
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creditline:			Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore
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culture:	Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)
technique:	color woodblock print
department:	Japanese Art
collection:	Japanese Art
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786–1865)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 38.8 x 26.8 cm (15 1/4 x 10 9/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Signature: Gototei Kunisada ga.
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	inscription:	Publisher: Iseya Rihei (emblem). 
Censorship Seal: kiwame.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Japonisme, Japanese Influence on French Art</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 9, 1975-January 26, 1976).', 'opening_date': '1975-07-09T04:00:00Z'}

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PROVENANCE

	(S. H. Mori)
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	Edward L. Whittemore [1862–1930], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1930
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1930–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Hollis, Howard C. “The Edward Loder Whittemore Collection of Japanese Prints.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 17, no. 4 (April 1930): 64–66.
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	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137291

	Weisberg, Gabriel P., Phillip Dennis Cate, Gerald Needham, Martin Eidelberg, and William R. Johnston. <em>Japonisme: Japanese Influence on French Art, 1854-1910</em>. Cleveland, OH, New Brunswick, NJ, and Baltimore, MD: The Cleveland Museum of Art; Rutgers University Art Gallery; Walters Art Gallery, 1975.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 12, fig. 9
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IMAGES

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