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American Family with a Dancing Daughter

Utagawa Yoshikazu

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image depicts a family of three. The man on the left wears a black top hat, a long black jacket, white shirt, white pants, and black shoes. He has dark hair and a beard. The woman on the right sits and wears a blue and pink dress with a blue scarf around her neck. She has a purse in her left hand. The girl in the center wears a black dress with a pink ruffled skirt and has gray hair. She appears to be dancing. The background is a light-brown color with Japanese writing on the right side. The artist is Utagawa Yoshikazu and the title is American Family with a Dancing Daughter.

Artwork Details

Date
1861 (Bunkyu 1, 2nd month)
Medium
Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
432 × 625 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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