Art, literature & history
Lovers in the Garden, from an Untitled Series of Erotic Prints
c. 1673/81
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e
- Dimensions
- 23 × 34.5 cm (9 1/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1973.645.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Hishikawa Moronobu. Lovers in the Garden, from an Untitled Series of Erotic Prints, c. 1673/81. Inventory 1973.645.2. Hishikawa Moronobu; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/130211. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression. Individual creator review: the existing Q746217 explicitly links native Chicago artist 35839, Getty ULAN 500118854 and LoC n80040691. Fresh Getty and LoC authorities independently corroborate the name and cross-reference one another; LoC also links Q746217. Local birth 1618, Chicago numeric birth 1613, Chicago displayed unknown birth, Getty circa 1620 and LoC approximately 1618 remain separate assertions. The native suffix 'Japanese, (?)-1694' concerns an unknown birth year, not uncertain authorship; the exact displayed creator name is unqualified. No artist field, creator link, artwork date, holding or review status changes. A Met lookup's differing Q11620184 is retained as an unresolved external identifier discrepancy and was not used as direct QID corroboration. The exact Chicago print remains dated c. 1673/81 with numeric interval 1668–1686.
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Lovers in the Garden, from an Untitled Series of Erotic Prints — Hishikawa Moronobu. c. 1673/81.
Medium: Woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e. Dimensions: 23 × 34.5 cm (9 1/16 × 13 15/16 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.