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Woman Reads while Child Sleeps on her Lap, from the series "Elegant Comparison of Little Treasures (Furyu kodakara awase)", c. 1802. Color woodblock print; oban.
Color woodblock print; oban · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Woman Reads while Child Sleeps on her Lap, from the series "Elegant Comparison of Little Treasures (Furyu kodakara awase)"
- Artist
- Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿 Japanese, c.1753-1806
- Date
- c. 1802
- Medium
- Color woodblock print; oban
- Credit line
- Gift of Chester W. Wright
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Ukiyo-e c. 1600–1900
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.