Toyohara Kunichika (Japanese, 1835-1900), Painted Album Leaf, Meiji Period

Meiji Period

Bijin and Attendants Making a Snow Daruma
Ink and color on silk, inscribed lower left and with one seal; mounted on board, glazed, matted, and framed.

Sight 11 3/4 x 12 3/4 in., 30 x 32.5 cm.; Frame 17 1/4 x 17 3/4 in., 43.8 x 45.1 cm.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

Provenance:

Acquired by Dr. Tyler Dennett (American 1883-1949)

Thence by descent

Note:

For an album painted by Kunichika, Artisans, Beauties, and Annual Events, dated 1874, with leaves of similar format and scale to the present work, see the example sold at Christie's, New York, March 16, 2012, lot 70 and now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, #2021.402

According to an entry on the Williams College Library site (https://specialcollections.williams.edu/williams-history/presidents/dennett-tyler/)

Dennett embarked on journalism around 1908, and went on to become a distinguished historian and professor, publishing Americans in East Asia in 1922. He was Chief of the Division of Publications and Editor (1924-1929) and Historical Advisor (1929-1932) at the U. S. State Department. He chaired the new School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University (1931-1934) and won a Pulitzer prize in 1934 for his biography of John Hay. He served as the 9th president of Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, from 1934-1937.