Posted by ARNOLD (192.231.106.2) on March 26, 2004 at 20:27:52:
In Reply to: Re: Ukiyoe and Women posted by SUE SMITH on March 26, 2004 at 15:11:10:
Hi Susan,
You are very welcome! It helps a lot when we know what you are finding interesting since there is so much Ukiyo-e.
Monet, the famous French Impressionist, who worked in the around 1900 was like Mary Cassatt a collector of Ukiyo-e. Monet and his wife were apparently fond of Kuniyoshi's depiction of "noble women" and domestic scenes. Their choices in this genre are amongst about 200 Japanese prints that lined the walls of their large home in Giverny, France. Each of these prints are pictured in a catalog by Genevieve Aitken and Marianne Delafond "La Collection D'estampes Japonaises de Claude Monet". Unfortunately, the catalog is in French and generally unavailable in the United States. However, I see that there is a new book out called "Monet’s Home" (search for the book on amazon.com) with 200 color pictures which probably show a lot of the prints lining the walls although probably in the background.
I recommend looking at Robert Shaap’s "Heroes and Ghosts". This book pictures 30 pages of colored prints/descriptions of Yoshitoshi’s heroines and domestic scenes in a chapter called ‘Women". Actually, one of the prints is from a series of 70 prints that is described in on John Fiorillo’s website. Go to the top of the Q and A page and click on John Fiorillo’s Viewing Japanese Prints. When you get the first web page, click on Site Map which is underlined. When you get the Site Map, click on Yoshitoshi (2) which is in a long list of subjects under Ukiyo-e.
Arnold