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A Courtesan and Her Attendant Using Mirrors to Identify a Mendicant Monk, c. 1772. Color woodblock print; chuban.
Color woodblock print; chuban · 26.3 × 19.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- A Courtesan and Her Attendant Using Mirrors to Identify a Mendicant Monk
- Artist
- Isoda Koryusai Japanese, 1735-1790
- Date
- c. 1772
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; chuban
- Dimensions
- 26.3 × 19.6 cm (10 5/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.