About the Artwork
Beauty Blotting Her Lip Rouge
ca. between 1800 and 1805
Utagawa Toyokuni I
1769-1825
Japanese
Unknown
Ink and paint on silk
Overall: 63 7/8 × 23 7/8 inches (162.2 × 60.6 cm) Image: 26 × 16 5/8 inches (66 × 42.2 cm)
Paintings
Asian Art
Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford II Fund and General Membership Fund; gifts from Mr. and Mrs. William A. Fisher, and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb by exchange
1984.20
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, left side, center: Utagawa Toyokuni ga
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Stamps, in red, below signature: [two artist's seals]
Provenance
Klaus F. Naumann
1984-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Sekai Bijutsu Zenshu
Ukiyo-e Taisei
Bulletin of the DIA. Annual Report. 1984, p. 10 (fig 10).
"La Chronique des Arts, Principales Acquisitions des Musees en 1984," Gazette des Beaux-arts. Supplement, no. 1394. March 1985, pl. 221.
"Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit Free Press. April 25, 1993, p.5 (ill.).
Akiko, Yosano. River of Stars. Boston, 1997, cover photo.
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Utagawa Toyokuni I, Beauty Blotting Her Lip Rouge, ca. between 1800 and 1805, ink and paint on silk. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford II Fund and General Membership Fund, et al., 1984.20.
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