Hosoda Eishi

Courtesan with a Letter in Her Mouth

1756–1815

Dating

Date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Dimensions

Image: 32 1/16 × 10 3/16 in. (81.4 × 25.9 cm) Overall with mounting: 65 1/2 × 14 5/16 in. (166.4 × 36.4 cm) Overall with knobs: 65 1/2 × 16 1/2 in. (166.4 × 41.9 cm)

Collection no.

2015.500.9.16

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Hosoda Eishi. Courtesan with a Letter in Her Mouth. Hosoda Eishi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.