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Elegant Pleasures of the Four Seasons
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About this work
The title of this print suggests a series of four, but only this wintry print is known. A boy has dropped his toy wrestlers as he is hoisted up to a woman who has been enjoying a book at the heated table. Her companion buries her head beneath the blanket to stay warm, her bare feet exposed by a girl tending the hot coals in the pit in the floor.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineElegant Pleasures of the Four Seasons, c. 1782. Attributed to Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?-1806). Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; sheet: 26.1 x 39.1 cm (10 1/4 x 15 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore, 1930.196
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