Isoda Koryūsai (礒田湖龍斎) (artist )
Woman with baby climbing out of bathtub (子供を抱いて風呂から上がる女)
ca 1770
4.75 in x 31.375 in (Overall dimensions) Signature: Koryūsai ga (湖龍斎画)
Artist's seal: Unreadable
Publisher: Matsumura Yahei
Marks 312 - seal not listed but close to 15-023 and 025
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - similar, but more discrete A print like this one is listed in Allen Hockley's The Prints of Isoda Koryūsai: Floating World Culture and its Consumers in the Eighteenth-Century Japan, p. 249, p. E-2. However, the print in the Lyon Collection shows the woman's genitalia.
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Andreas Marks does not list Koryūsai as one of the artists published by Matsumura Yahei, but we are confident of this attribution.
Matsumura Yahei (松村弥兵衛) (publisher)
pillar prints (hashira-e - 柱絵) (genre)
boshi-e (母子絵) (genre)