Before the Mirror from “Three Figures of Beauties by Shunsen”

Before the Mirror from “Three Figures of Beauties by Shunsen”

Before the Mirror from “Three Figures of Beauties by Shunsen”

Artist Natori Shunsen (Japanese, 1886-1960)

Publisher Watanabe Shozaburo (1885-1962)

Date1929

Dimensionsoverall: 16 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. (41.3 x 29.2 cm)

Mediumcolor woodblock print

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Hubert D. Bennett

Object number

1939.248

Not on View

Published ReferencesPutney, Carolyn M., Kendall H. Brown, Koyama Shuko, and Paul Binnie, Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2013. repr. (col.) pp. 205.Exhibition HistoryToledo, Toledo Museum of Art, A Special Exhibition of Modern Japanese Prints, March 2-- March 30, 1930, repr. pl. 164.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Strong Women Beautiful Men: Japanese Portrait Prints from the Toledo Museum of Art, October 14, 2005 - January 2, 2006.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Fresh Impressions: Early Modern Japanese Prints, October 4, 2013-January 1, 2014.

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