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Smoking on a Bench

A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of color woodblock print; chuban.

Date:

1765

Artist:

Attributed to Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信
Japanese, 1725 (?)-1770

About this artwork

As she sits on a bench smoking, a young woman is shocked to see a vision of a courtesan appear in the smoke.
This work is also a calendar print for the year 1765; the long months appear in the curly-cue pattern on her robe. The print bears no signature, though it has been attributed to Harunobu, as have many unsigned egoyomi of the period.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Arts of Asia

Artist

Suzuki Harunobu

Title

Smoking on a Bench

Place

Japan (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1765

Medium

Color woodblock print; chuban

Dimensions

23.6 × 17.5 cm (9 1/4 × 6 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection

Reference Number

1942.88

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