Fine Japanese Prints
Fine Japanese Prints
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) | Peony and Butterfly | Edo period, 19th century
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December 14, 01:23 PM GMT
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Peony and Butterfly
Edo period, 19th century
woodblock print, from an untitled series known as Large Flowers, signed saki no Hokusai Iitsu hitsu, censor's seal kiwame, published by Nishimuraya Yohachi (Eijudo), circa 1831-32
Horizontal oban: 26.7 x 39.4 cm., 10½ x 15½ in.
The so-called Large Flowers series that Hokusai designed for the publisher Nishimuraya Yohachi in about 1831-32 comprises ten prints in total. In this design, Hokusai depicts a butterfly fluttering above a group of peony flowers and foliage that bend in a gentle breeze.
For another impression of the same print in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.17593, go to:
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/209500
For another in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, accession number 74.1.211, go to:
https://collections.artsmia.org/art/8690/peonies-and-butterfly-katsushika-hokusai