KITAGAWA UTAMARO. Midnight: Mother and Sleepy Child

KITAGAWA UTAMARO (ca. 1754-1806)

Midnight: Mother and Sleepy Child

Midnight: Mother and Sleepy Child. Artist: Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, ca. 1754-1806). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 14 3/8 x 9 5/8 in. (36.5 x 24.4cm). Date: 1790. Kitagawa Utamaro, one of the most prolific artists of the genre of portrayal of beautiful women, was extremely interested in images of mother and child in daily life. This print belongs to a series entitled Fuzoku Bijin Tokei (Women's Daily Customs). To illustrate midnight, Utamaro has chosen a mother who sleepily emerges from her mosquito net to attend to her child, who rubs the sleep from his eyes. The personal, quotidian nature of the subject exemplifies the new interest in the individual that emerged during the Edo period.

Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Edo period (1615-1868)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

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2872 x 4175 px | 34.3 MB

24.3 x 35.3 cm | 9.6 x 13.9 in (300 dpi)