Elegant Pleasures of the Four Seasons

Description

The title of this print suggests a series of four, but only this wintry print is known. A boy has dropped his toy wrestlers as he is hoisted up to a woman who has been enjoying a book at the heated table. Her companion buries her head beneath the blanket to stay warm, her bare feet exposed by a girl tending the hot coals in the pit in the floor.

Provenance

Charles B. Eddy Collection; (Yamanaka & Co.); Edward L. Whittemore

Elegant Pleasures of the Four Seasons

Kitagawa Utamaro

c. 1782

Accession Number

1930.196

Medium

Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 26.1 x 39.1 cm (10 1/4 x 15 3/8 in.)

Classification

Print

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore