Artwork
Untitled
Untitled is an ink print by the Romanticist artist Utagawa Toyokuni I. It dates from 1789 and is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
About this work
Overview
Untitled is a woodblock print by Utagawa Toyokuni I, created around 1789. It is a representative work of the artist's early output.
Subject & Meaning
The print depicts a serene scene of three figures by a river, with a woman holding a child and another seated nearby, under the shade of a tree with a crane flying in the background. The tranquil atmosphere suggests a quiet moment from everyday life.
Technique & Style
The artist employed cross-hatching to add texture to the striped robe and tree bark, while using bold black outlines to define the soft, muted colors of pinks, greens, and blues that dominate the scene.
Artist & collection
Artist
Toyokuni was a born showman who made sure the energy of Edo’s kabuki stage never faded on paper.
Bandō Mitsugorō II as Shinbei in the Kabuki Play "Sukeroku"
Beauty Blotting Her Lip Rouge
Portrait of Kinokuniya Bunzaemon
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Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan|Onoe Matsusuke as the Ghost of the Murdered Wife Oiwa, in "A Tale of Horror from the Yotsuya Station on the Tokaido Road"
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娘道成寺図の錦絵|Print of a Kabuki Dancer from the Maiden of the Dōjōji Temple (Musume Dōjōji)
The Chofu Tama River in Musashi Province (from the series The Six Tama Rivers of the Floating World)
Umemi Tsuki|Plum-Seeing Month: Second Month
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喜多川歌麿画 絵兄弟娘道成寺 見立猿廻し 「絵兄弟」|A Woman Dressing a Girl for a the Kabuki Dance “Musume Dojōji,” with “Brother Picture” (E-kyōdai) of a Monkey Trainer
A Lady-in-Waiting with Waist as Slender as a Willow from the series Flowers and Modern Beauties
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忠臣蔵五段目|A Woman Snatching a Bag of Sweetmeats from Her MotHer
Third Print from A Low Tide Pentaptych
四季の花|Girls Picking Green Leaves, from the illustrated book Flowers of the Four Seasons
Women with Salt Pails; The Noda Tama River in Mutsu Province, from an untitled series of the Six Tama Rivers
すだれ貝|The Curtain Clam
鈴木春信画 六玉川 「壔衣の玉川 摂津の名所」|Kōromō Uchi Tamagawa|The Cloth-Fulling Jewel River, a Famous Place in Settsu Province (Tōi no Tamagawa, Settsu no meisho), from an untitled series of Six Jewel Rivers (Mu Tamagawa)