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A Woman Playing with a Young Boy

A Woman Playing with a Young Boy

A Woman Playing with a Young Boy

Kitagawa Utamaro

1794–1814

Medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: 14 3/5 x 9 29/32 in. (37.1 x 25.2 cm)
Genre: Print
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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