id:			152474
accession number:	1985.299
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.299
updated:		2025-02-09 04:20:08.043000

Segawa Kikunojo II as the Heron Maiden (from the series Ichimura Theater), 1770. Ippitsusai Bunchō (Japanese, active c. 1765–92). Color woodblock print; sheet: 32.8 x 14.9 cm (12 15/16 x 5 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith 1985.299

title:				Segawa Kikunojo II as the Heron Maiden (from the series Ichimura Theater)
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creation date:			1770
creation date earliest:		1770
creation date latest:		1770
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creditline:			The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith
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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

* Ippitsusai Bunchō (Japanese, active c. 1765–92)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 32.8 x 14.9 cm (12 15/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Signature: Ippitsusai Buncho ga.
Artist Seal: Mori uji.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection
	opening date:   1988-09-14T04:00:00
	<i>A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Later Japanese Art Rotation (Gallery 113)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 4, 2003-March 18, 2004).', 'opening_date': '2003-12-04T05:00:00Z'}

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PROVENANCE

	Charles de Haviland [1839–1921]
	date: before 1922
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	(Hotel Drouout, Paris, France, November 27, 1922 sale, lot 139)
	date: November 27, 1922
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	Louis Vernon Ledoux [1880–1948], New York, NY
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	Hans Popper [1903–1988], consigned to Sotheby Parke Bernet for sale
	date: ?–1972
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	(Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, NY, October 5, 1972 sale, lot 84)
	date: October 5, 1972
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	Eugene V. Thaw [1927–2018], New York, NY
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	The Kelvin Smith Collection, Cleveland, OH, given by Mrs. Kelvin [Eleanor Armstrong] Smith [1899–1998] to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1985
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1985–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Ledoux, Louis V. <em>Japanese Prints, Bunchō to Utamaro, In the Collection of Louis V. Ledoux; Catalogue</em>. New York: E. Weyhe, 1948.
	page number: 	no. 8
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	Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York. <em>The Hans Popper Collection of Japanese Prints</em>. Sale 3409. October 5, 1972.
	page number: 	Lot 84
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	“Checklist of the Kelvin Smith Bequest.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 75, no. 7 (1988): 292–295.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 292
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25160040

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