ATTRIBUTED TO HISHIKAWA MOROFUSA (ACTIVE LATE 17TH CENTURY)
Beauty Reading with Her Attendant
Edo period (1615-1868), late 17th century
A hanging scroll in ink, color, and gold on silk of a beauty sitting in front of a two-panel folding screen depicting flowers of autumn, an open book perched on her bent knee, an attendant seated to the right, sealed Morofusa
With a futomaki wood roller and a wood storage box that fits the scroll and roller combined 12 3/8 x 15 1/8in (31.4 x 38.4cm)
Footnotes:
Provenance:
Christie's auction October 26, 1998, 'An Important Collection of Japanese Ukiyo-e Paintings', lot 18

Exhibited:
Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e meihin ten: Azabu bijutsukan shozō (Ukiyo-e Painting Masterpieces in the Collection of the Azabu Museum of Art), exhibition venues:
Sendai City Museum, Sendai, June 11-July 17, 1988
Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Osaka, September 6-October 9, 1988
Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, October 20, November 13, 1988

Azabu Museum of Arts and Crafts, Tokyo, Edo no fashon, kaikan kinen ten, Part 1: Nikuhitsu ukiyo-e ni miru onnatachi no yosooi (Fashion of Edo: Women's Dress in Ukiyo-e Paintings, Exhibition Celebrating the Museum's Opening), June 14-July 2, 1989

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 15, 1992-February 7, 1993