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“The Courtesan Hanazuma Reading a Letter,” from the series Beauties Compared to Flowers (Bijin hana awase) Wall Art
ART BY: Kitagawa Utamaro
“The Courtesan Hanazuma Reading a Letter,” from the series Beauties Compared to Flowers (Bijin hana awase) Wall Art
ART BY: Kitagawa Utamaro
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About this artwork
“The Courtesan Hanazuma Reading a Letter,” from the series Beauties Compared to Flowers (Bijin hana awase) is a woodblock print; ink and color on paper by Kitagawa Utamaro (1753–1806), dated 1799. The artist is catalogued as Japanese. The original is held by the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the file offered here measures 2633 × 3878 px (2.5 MB). You will find it among Prints, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 649 works by Kitagawa Utamaro, a Japanese artist.
Kitagawa Utamaro was a Japanese artist. He is one of the most highly regarded designers of ukiyo-e woodblock prints and paintings, and is best known for his bijin ōkubi-e "large-headed pictures of beautiful women" of the 1790s.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Kitagawa Utamaro →
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“The Courtesan Hanazuma Reading a Letter,” from the series Beauties Compared to Flowers (Bijin hana awase) is free to preview at web resolution. The original high-resolution file is a one-time purchase, or included with an Archive Lane membership (up to 1,000 high-resolution downloads per day) — and the artwork can also be ordered as a made-to-order print.
