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Utagawa Kunisada Artworks collected in Metmuseum

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Utagawa Kunisada Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese: 歌川 国貞; 1786 – 12 January 1865), also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III (三代 歌川 豊国, Sandai Utagawa Toyokuni), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist. He is considered the most popular, prolific and commercially successful designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints in 19th-century Japan. In his own time, his reputation far exceeded that of his contemporaries, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunisada

Danjūrō VII's Benkei as Fudō Myōō

Japanese, 1786–1864 / The Met

   title: Danjūrō VII's Benkei as Fudō Myōō
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1921

Banquet of the Next Full Moon at the Chrysanthemum Festival, from the series The Twelve Months (Chōyō nochi no tsuki no en, Jūni tsuki no uchi)

Japanese, 1786–1864 / The Met

   title: Banquet of the Next Full Moon at the Chrysanthemum Festival, from the series The Twelve Months (Chōyō nochi no tsuki no en, Jūni tsuki no uchi)
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1999

Seishu Awabi-tori no Zu

Asian Art / The Met

   title: Seishu Awabi-tori no Zu
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1917

Album of Forty-eight Actor Prints

Japanese, 1786–1864 / The Met

   title: Album of Forty-eight Actor Prints
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1914

Evening Snow (Bo-setsu), from the series, "Eight Figural Views" (Sugata Hakkei)

Japanese, 1786–1864 / The Met

   title: Evening Snow (Bo-setsu), from the series, "Eight Figural Views" (Sugata Hakkei)
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1936

Rain of the Fifth Month (Samidare)

Japanese, 1786–1864 / The Met

   title: Rain of the Fifth Month (Samidare)
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1939

Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Konoshita Tokichi, Nakamura Daikichi as His Wife, and Iwai Hanshiro V as Masago in the Play Yakko Yakko Edo no Hanayari

Japanese, 1786–1864 / The Met

   title: Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Konoshita Tokichi, Nakamura Daikichi as His Wife, and Iwai Hanshiro V as Masago in the Play Yakko Yakko Edo no Hanayari
   department: Asian Art
   accessionYear: 1919

Ichikawa Danjūrō VII (1791–1859) in the Role of Konoshita Tokichi from the Scene "Mountain Gate" in the Play Yakko Yakko Edo Hanayari

Jost Amman Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Jost Amman Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Jost Amman (June 13, 1539 – March 17, 1591) was a Swiss-German artist, celebrated chiefly for his woodcuts, done mainly for book illustrations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jost_Amman Marcus Curtius    title: Marcus Curtius    department: Drawings and Prints    accessionYear: 2002 Entry of Maximilian II into Nuremberg, June 7, 1570    title: Entry of Maximilian II into Nuremberg, June 7, 1570    department: Drawings and Prints    accessionYear: 1953 Triumph of Christian Faith    ti
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Winslow Homer Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Winslow Homer Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Winslow Homer (February 24, 1836 – September 29, 1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art. Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. He subsequently took up oil painting and produced major studio works characterized by the weight and density he exploited from the medium. He also worked extensively
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Okumura Masanobu Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Okumura Masanobu Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Okumura Masanobu (Japanese: 奥村 政信; 1686 – 13 March 1764) was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter. He also illustrated novelettes and in his early years wrote some fiction. At first his work adhered to the Torii school, but later drifted beyond that. He is a figure in the formative era of ukiyo-e doing early works on actors and bijin-ga ("pictures of beautiful women"). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okumura_Masanobu Yaoya O Shichi Standing, Holding a Love Letter and a Battledo
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