Memorial Portrait of Matsumoto Kōshirō V, Age 75
c. 1838
Utagawa Kunihide
Utagawa Kunihide (Japanese, active 1820s-1850s)
Japanese Art
Memorial Portrait of Matsumoto Kōshirō V, Age 75, c. 1838. Utagawa Kunihide (Japanese, active 1820s-1850s). Color woodblock print; sheet: 37.5 x 26.1 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Claude Cassirer 1977.68 This kabuki actor was known for playing bad guys. His fans would have collected this portrait as a memento following his death in May 1838.
- Maker/Artist
- Utagawa Kunihide
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- color woodblock print
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 37.5 x 26.1 cm (14 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed: 一峯斎国英画 Publisher: 川正（川口屋正蔵） Translation: Signed: Ippōsai Kunihide Publisher: Kawashō (Kawaguchiya Shōzō)
- Departments
- Japanese Art
- Accession Number
- 1977.68
- Credit Line
- Gift of Claude Cassirer
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1977, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978: Year in Review 1977.<br>College of Wooster, 1981: Japanese Prints and Ceramics from The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, and The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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