Musical instruments – Varshavsky Collection

Félicien Rops. L’ariette; etching, n.d. (two prints).

Two prints on laid paper, one in an earlier state, published under the name Niederkorn. Owner's stamp 'LvM' on verso.

Dimensions: Paper (1): 31 x 22.3 cm; Paper (2): 46 x 33.8 cm; Plate: 31 x 22 cm; Image: 25.5 x 17.5 cm.

Catalogue raisonné: Arthur Hubschmid (1977): 318; Rouir 954:3 and 954:5?.

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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III). Beauty playing the shamisen beneath a mosquito net / Fan print, c. 1832.

Artist: Utagawa Kunisada [歌川国貞] a.k.a. Utagawa Toyokuni III [三代歌川豊国] (Japanese, 1786 – 1865). Signed: Kunisada ga [国貞画] in a red double-gourd cartouche Publisher: Unknown (no seal). Date: c. 1832 Izzard: "... red cloth decorated with the characters Yauan, one of Ichikawa Danjūrō VII [市川団十郎] (Japanese, 1791 – 1859) poetry names, and the name of his residence in Fukagawa. The absence of publisher's emblem and censorship seals may indicate that this was a privately issued print, not for public use". Ref.: [LIB-2967.2022] Utagawa Kunisada (1786 – 1865): His world revisited / Catalogue № 17, Exhibition March 17-21, 2021. — NY: Sebastian Izzard, LLC., 2021; p. 112-3, fig. 32). Size: Fan print (aiban uchiwa-e); 235 x 295 mm.

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Utagawa Toyokuni I. Seventh lunar month, from the series ‘Fashionable Twelve Months’ / Fan print, 1822.

Title: Seventh lunar month [初秋] (Hatsuaki no zu); Series: Fashionable Twelve Months (Imayo juni-kagetsu). Another version of translation: Modern Beauties of Twelve Months. Artist: Utagawa Toyokuni I [歌川豊国] (1769–1825). Pubisher: Ibaya Senzaburō [伊場屋仙三郎] (Japanese, 1815 – 1869), seal: Dansendō [伊場仙]. Signed: Toyokuni ga and sealed with toshidama. Date-kiwame seal: Ushi (ox), Bunsei 5 (1822). Size: double-sheet uncut fan print ( aiban uchiwa-e), 219 x 295 mm.

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Young woman with a shamisen, from the series Collection of charming music (Enkyoku zoroi) / Fan print, 1853.

Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi [歌川國芳] (Japanese, 1798 – 1861) Publisher: British Museum provides for the title as Enkyoku-zoroi [艶曲揃] (Set of Voluptuous Melodies) and the publisher as Sanpei. Indeed, 三平 (Sanpei) was a wholesale fan shop at the end of the Edo period. However, Andreas Marks identifies the publisher's seal as 三平 Mihei = Mikawaya Heiroku (1848-56), a member of the Fan Producing Guild (AM 11-016|325a). Block carver: Yokokawa Takejirō, seal: Carver Taki [彫竹] (Hori Take)

Signed: Ichiyosai Kuniyoshi ga in a red cartouche and sealed with paulownia (kiri mon).

Date seal and double nanushi censor seals: Fuku & Muramatsu, 1853 (Kaei 6, 2^nd month).

Size: Uchiwa-e (untrimmed fan print) 296 x 230 mm.

SVJP-0303.2019

SVJP-0251.2018

British Museum # 2008,3037.22006

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Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III). Courtesan playing a kokyū, from the series ‘Assortments of Beauties Accomplishments’, 1829.

A young woman playing a four-string musical instrument with a bow (kokyū). Series: Assortments of Beauties Accomplishments [美人芸盡] (Bijin gei-zukushi). Utagawa Kunisada [歌川国貞]; a.k.a. Utagawa Toyokuni III [三代歌川豊国] (Japanese, 1786 – 1865). Signed: Kochoro Kunisada ga [香蝶楼国貞画] in a red double gourd cartouche. Publisher: Ibaya Kyūbei [伊場屋久兵衛] (Japanese, 1804 – 1851); seal: Hanmoto, Kyū [板元久] (Marks 19-040 | 126e) Date seal: Bunsei 12 (1829). Censors' seal: Kiwame. Size: Fan print (uchiwa-e).

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