EISEN (1790-1848). A standing courtesan. (Sold)
Artist:
Keisai Eisen (1790-1848)
Subject:
A standing courtesan near a screen painted with bamboo.
Series:
Tosei (or) Imayo sanjurokkasen
Signature:
Unsigned as all prints in the series.
Date:
ca. 1825
Size:
Koban surimono style, 19x12,5 cm
Medium:
Woodblock color print with use of metallic pigments.
Literature:
For a discussion of this series of surimono see Chris Uhlenbeck, Commercially produced surimono, in The Poetic Image, Leiden 1987, p.17-19.
Remarks:
Another probably later version of this print, without the series cartouche and the addition of a poem and a cartouche with numbers, is in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston no.11.21661-81.
Conditions:
Fine impression and color, the paper slightly toned otherwise fine conditions
Item no:
D 128