Utamaro

“A Famous Courtesan Applying Makeup in Her Boudoir” (Meikun keichū no yosooi)

ca. 1800

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

Dimensions

Vertical ōban; 14 5/8 × 9 15/16 in. (37.1 × 25.2 cm)

Collection no.

JP556

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Utamaro. “A Famous Courtesan Applying Makeup in Her Boudoir” (Meikun keichū no yosooi). Utamaro; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.