Lot 434 Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770) | Young couple with auspicious New Year dream symbols: Mount Fuji, falcon, and aubergine | Edo period, 18th century

Suzuki Harunobu (1725-1770) | Young couple with auspicious New Year dream symbols: Mount Fuji, falcon, and aubergine | Edo period, 18th century

EUR 2,000

2,000 - 3,000 EUR

未知

Good impression, some fading to colours, toned, backing, slight nick to the bottom right edge, some slight soiling, minor rubbing, minor foxing, a few slight marks, some light creasing, the reverse with traces of paper residue along edges, the top left and right corners with tape and paper residue to verso.

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woodblock print, signed Suzuki Harunobu ga (Pictured by Suzuki Harunobu), circa 1768-69; with collector’s seal Berès to verso
Vertical chuban: 27.9 x 20.8 cm., 11 by 8⅛ in.
来源：Huguette Berès (1913-1999)
图录
说明：The haiku poem inscribed in the cloud cartouche has been translated as:
A year of plenty –
does snow still linger on you,
Mount Fuji in spring?
Honen no
yuki wa suru ka ya
Fuji no haru
A similar impression of the same print is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession number 11.19512, go to:
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/211943